Author: Raphael Satter
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US charges 7 Russian intel officers as West condemns GRU
BRUSSELS — The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday charged seven Russian intelligence officers with hacking anti-doping agencies and other organizations hours after Western officials leveled new accusations against Moscow’s secretive GRU military spy agency. Hours before the U.S. indictment was announced, Western nations accused the GRU of new cybercrimes, with Dutch and British officials labeling…
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Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller designs Markle’s sleek dress
LONDON — Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy is the master British designer behind the sleek silk boat-necked gown and long billowing veil worn by Meghan Markle as she walked down the nave of St. George’s Chapel for her wedding to Prince Harry. The clean lines of the white dress highlighted Markle’s smiling face Saturday as…
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Colorado Springs military wife threatened by Russian hackers posing as IS
PARIS — Army wife Angela Ricketts was soaking in a bubble bath in her Colorado Springs home, leafing through a memoir, when a message appeared on her iPhone from hackers threatening to slaughter her family. “Dear Angela!” the Facebook message read. “Bloody Valentine’s Day!” “We know everything about you, your husband and your children,” the…
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Cybersecurity firm: US Senate in Russian hackers’ crosshairs
PARIS — The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate, a cybersecurity firm said Friday. The revelation suggests the group often nicknamed Fancy Bear, whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 U.S. electoral contest, is still busy…
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Russian hackers targeted more than 200 journalists globally
PARIS — Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web. Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses…
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FBI didn’t tell US targets as Russian hackers hunted emails
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EDITOR’S NOTE: One in a series of stories on the findings of an Associated Press investigation of the Russian hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election in 2016 Nearly 80 interviews with Americans targeted by Fancy Bear, a Russian government-aligned cyberespionage group, turned up only two cases in which the FBI had provided a heads-up.…
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Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats’ emails
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WASHINGTON — It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires. Addressed to people who worked for Clinton during her first presidential run, the messages bounced back untouched. Except one. Within nine…
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Vehicle hits soldiers in Paris suburb, injuring 6
PARIS — The Latest on an attack on soldiers in a Paris suburb (all times local): 2:10 p.m. French officials say police have arrested a man on a highway north of Paris in the search for a driver who rammed his car into soldiers. Two officials said it is too early to say for certain…
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Cyberattack may be ‘more nefarious’ than a criminal shakedown
PARIS — The dramatic data-scrambling attack that hit computers around the world Tuesday appears to be contained. But with the damage and disruption still coming into focus, security experts worry the sudden explosion of malicious software may have been more sinister than a criminally minded shakedown of computer users. “There may be a more nefarious…
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Companies weigh cyberattack cost, with Ukraine hit hard
PARIS — Companies and governments around the world on Wednesday counted the cost of a software epidemic that has disrupted ports, hospitals, and banks. Ukraine, which was hardest hit and where the attack likely originated, said it had secured critical state assets — though everyday life remained affected, with cash machines out of order. As…