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98: Zero Day Brokers

Darknet Diaries

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What Happened to the New York Times?

Malwor was installed on a computer in the new york times network, which gave an attacker access to the network. The attack originated from a university in china. Once the times found that this attacker was in the network, they were able to lock them out and clean the systems that were infected. And i remember within 24 hours, a the walstre journal in the washington s and a lot of journalists raised their hands on twitter and said, if we we were also hacked. We were all so acked. It was almost like you weren't cool of us. You had been hacked by china. This is a gigantic problem, and news rooms are facing it.

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