A Hacker May Have Deepfaked Trump’s Chief of Staff in a Phishing Campaign
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Summary
German authorities have finally identified the notorious figure behind Trickbot, the Russian man known as Stern, who is thought to be Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev; Germany’s identification of the notorious figure behind the Trickbot botnet, a Russian man known only as “Stern” for years, has been arrested in Yaroslavl where the local police raided his home and office; FBI is investigating a series of fraudulent messages and calls to high-profile Republican political figures and business executives that impersonated Trump’s White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles; a Swedish far-right mixed-martial-arts tournament has been tied to an American neo-Nazi MMA “fight club”; and more than 2 million documents left exposed in a public database reveal Russia’s nuclear weapons facilities in unprecedented levels of detail.
