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More evidence has emerged of how hostile states are harnessing new technology, even as we experience unprecedented levels of ‘hacking’ designed to keep an eye on our investigations.
One spook told us: “New technology like AI (Artificial Intelligence), hacking into power grids, and illegally getting passwords from the ‘dark web’ are being used all the time by sites linked to Russia or China, and, frankly, we are struggling to keep up”.
This is happening more and more today, and Russian hackers have also targeted The Eye.
The site always used to get a couple of ‘allow requests’ from e-mail addresses with the .ru (Russia) ending, but recently this has increased massively.
In the past there have been four or five A DAY!
But new techniques emerging today indicate that the problem may become even worse in the future, and private firms are lending a helping hand in combating what is happening.
One of them is Recorded Future (RF) in the USA.
The boss there, Christopher Ahlberg has declared they have knowledge of more C2 (‘Command and Control’ nodes that hackers use to dupe their victimes) than anyone else in the world.
Mr Ahlberg said: “We use that (knowledge) to bust Chinese and Russian intel operations constantly”.
It has also recorded billions of stolen log in details on the dark web, and collects millions of images daily.
They, and others, are in a fight with Russian and Chinese hackers which may only become worse as technology advances.
So, it seems, are we…
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