Hackers Threaten to Put Bullet in Researcher’s Brain

One target of the group was mysteriously shot in the head at the beginning of the year.

Researchers at the Citizen Lab, an Internet watchdog group based at the University of Toronto, published a deep diveon Monday about a seven-year hacking campaign against South American political dissidents, journalists, and others. During the investigation, the cyber spies engaged with the researchers directly, issuing a series of taunts, jabs, and threats on the screens of their infected machines.

“We are going to analyze your brain with a bullet and your family too,” one attacker said in Spanish in a pop-up window that appeared on a researcher’s computer screen. (Original: “Vamos a analizar tu cerebro con una bala y en la de tu famila.”) For the full article click here 

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