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The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities
Plus: The FBI unlocks the Trump shooter’s phone, a security researcher gets legal threats for exposing hackable traffic lights, and more.
Treasury also notes that “instances of major damage to victims have thus far been avoided due to CARR’s lack of technical sophistication,” a line that, for any hacker, may hurt even worse than sanctions. Though the FBI didn’t reveal how it was able to crack the phone, Bloomberg reported later this week that law enforcement used “unreleased technology” from the phone-hacking software company Cellebrite. This week, Andrew Lemon, a researcher for security firm Red Threat, published a pair of blog posts that outline how it would be possible to hack traffic light systems sold by the company Econolite due to a lack of authentication in their web interface.
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