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Russian Hackers Target Citizen Journalists Reporting On Malaysian Airlines Crash

A report released this week by security vendor ThreatConnect offers a glimpse at how threat actors with apparently strong ties to Moscow have been carrying out a sustained cyber campaign against a group of citizen journalists for publishing articles critical of Russia. The report offers an analysis of attacks on Bellingcat, a website that claims to use open source and social media resources to investigate and expose everything, from Mexican drug lords to conflicts being fought around the world The sites citizen reporters have filed scores of investigative reports examining the shooting down over Ukraine of MH17 in 2014.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/russian-hackers-target-citizen-journalists-reporting-on-malaysian-airlines-crash

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