Bloomberg reporters used new technology and time-honored journalistic tools to pull back the curtain on hackers -- and even turn their own tools against them. They revealed how pernicious Chinese hacking methods have become as other nations bulk up on cyberweapons, with consequences for citizens, business deals and dissidents.
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Joe Stewart’s day starts at 6:30 a.m. in Myrtle Beach, S.C., with a peanut butter sandwich, a sugar-free Red Bull, and 50,000 or so pieces of malware waiting in his e-mail in-box.
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For years, fixing the software flaws that left Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE)’s customers prey to hackers simply wasn’t a top company priority.
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During his civil lawsuit against the People’s Republic of China, Brian Milburn says he never once saw one of the country’s lawyers. He read no court documents from China’s attorneys because they filed none
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There’s almost universal agreement that the U.S. faces a catastrophic threat from cyber attacks by terrorists, hackers and spies. Washington policy makers just don’t seem able to do anything about it.
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Taymour Karim didn’t crack under interrogation. His Syrian captors beat him with their fists, with their boots, with sticks, with chains, with the butts of their Kalashnikovs.
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MJM -- Martin J. Muench -- is the developer of Andover, U.K.-based Gamma Group’s FinFisher intrusion software, which he sells to police and spy agencies around the world
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FBI officials quietly approached executives at Coca-Cola Co. (KO) on March 15, 2009, with some startling news. Sponsored Links Hackers had broken into the company’s computer systems and were pilfering sensitive files about its attempted $2.4 billion acquisition of China Huiyuan Juice Group (1886)
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The findings of a Citizen Lab report link Western technology to the computer hack of a U.A.E. activist, whose predicament shows how nations have rapidly moved beyond the surveillance of phone and e-mail transmissions to rifle through the most intimate details stored by personal computers and the smartphones that citizens carry with them everywhere.
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Researchers find that FinFisher spyware can take control of a range of mobile devices.
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Logs detailing the minute-by-minute activities of a government linked Chinese hacking group reveal its workaday routines, organized effort and relentless onslaught against its victims.
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Gamma International GmbH’s managing director said his company didn’t sell its FinFisher spyware to Bahrain, responding to research that showed activists from the Persian Gulf kingdom were targeted by what looked like the software, which can secretly monitor computers.
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Researchers identify copies of the elusive FinFisher cyber weapon, based on an examination of malicious software e-mailed to Bahraini activists obtained by Bloomberg News.
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Sep. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The British government has imposed export controls on U.K.-based Gamma Group’s FinSpy surveillance tool, which can remotely take over computers and phones, following reports that the systems may have been used to target political dissidents.
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Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Additional analysis shows evidence of FinFisher in matches in Australia, the Czech Republic, Dubai, Ethiopia, Estonia, Indonesia, Latvia, Mongolia, Qatar and the U.S.
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Mar. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The hack into American Superconductor Corp.'s computer networks illustrates a far-reaching campaign of industrial espionage by Chinese hackers after proprietary data.
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Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Hacker intrusions of law firms can yield them stolen data worth tens of millions of dollars and provide an unfair advantage in deal negotiations.
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Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China-based hackers rifled the computers of DuPont Co. at least twice in 2009 and 2010, information absent from the company's filings to the SEC. The agency is applying pressure for more disclosure.
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