Dark Basin
Uncovering a Massive Hack-For-Hire Operation
Dark Basin is a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions on six continents. Targets include advocacy groups and journalists, elected and senior government officials, hedge funds, and multiple industries.
Dark Basin extensively targeted American nonprofits, including organisations working on a campaign called #ExxonKnew, which asserted that ExxonMobil hid information about climate change for decades.
Dark Basin is also behind the phishing of organizations working on net neutrality advocacy, previously reported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/06/dark-basin-uncovering-a-massive-hack-for-hire-operation
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23466119
#darkbasin #hack
Uncovering a Massive Hack-For-Hire Operation
Dark Basin is a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions on six continents. Targets include advocacy groups and journalists, elected and senior government officials, hedge funds, and multiple industries.
Dark Basin extensively targeted American nonprofits, including organisations working on a campaign called #ExxonKnew, which asserted that ExxonMobil hid information about climate change for decades.
Dark Basin is also behind the phishing of organizations working on net neutrality advocacy, previously reported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/06/dark-basin-uncovering-a-massive-hack-for-hire-operation
Comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23466119
#darkbasin #hack
The Citizen Lab
Dark Basin
Over the course of our multi-year investigation, we found that Dark Basin likely conducted commercial espionage on behalf of their clients against opponents involved in high profile public events, criminal cases, financial transactions, news stories, and…