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Security expert publishes details behind NBC’s ‘fraudulent’ Sochi hacking story

NBC News reported that visitors to the Sochi Winter Olympics would be “hacked within minutes” of arriving at Sochi. Trend Micro researcher Kyle Wilhoit released a white paper about the “honeypot environment and three devices used in the experiment” NBC News’ video segment was so highly criticized by security experts that NBC issued a statement to defend it. The report claimed malicious software hijacked Richard Engel’s phone before the coffee arrived, making it appear as if malicious magical fairies installed malware on the phone.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2226321/security-expert-publishes-details-behind-nbc-s–fraudulent–sochi-hacking-story.html

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