Sleuths uncover a particularly brazen case of cyber-mischief
Targets included judges, MPs, journalists and ordinary people going through messy divorces
COMPANIES SUFFER hacking attacks on a daily basis. The most recent known victim was Honda, which announced that its computers had been locked down by ransomware on June 9th. Stories about the firms suspected of doing the hacking, though, are rarer. Also on June 9th CitizenLab, part of the Munk School of Government at the University of Toronto, said that it had unearthed one of the biggest-known groups of such workaday, mercenary hackers, which it has dubbed “Dark Basin”.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Basin motives”
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