{"id":47298,"date":"2021-06-15T00:29:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T04:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=47298"},"modified":"2021-06-10T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:33:08","slug":"secret-tech-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/secret-tech-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Tech Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46518\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/logoinside.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/logoinside.gif 350w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/logoinside-255x33.gif 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"\">Some U.S. officials suspect the so-called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/10-senators-propose-new-bill-help-victims-havana-syndrome-n1250440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Havana Syndrome<\/a>\u00a0could be an unintentional byproduct of foreign efforts to collect intelligence from U.S. government employees\u2019 electronic devices \u2014 and they are now concerned that America\u2019s adversaries may have weaponized the tactic to intentionally cause physical harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A recent U.S. intelligence assessment generated by the Biden administration could not determine what caused the unexplained brain injuries suffered by diplomats, spies and other government workers at home and abroad, or why the victims were potentially targeted, according to one current and two former officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered yet another massive trove of sensitive data, a dizzying 1.2TB database containing login credentials, browser cookies, autofill data, and payment information extracted by malware that has yet to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>In all, researchers from NordLocker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nordlocker.com\/blog\/malware-case-study\/\">said on Wednesday<\/a>, the database contained 26 million login credentials, 1.1 million unique email addresses, more than 2 billion browser cookies, and 6.6 million files. In some cases, victims stored passwords in text files created with the Notepad application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/06\/nameless-malware-collects-1-2tb-of-sensitive-data-and-stashes-it-online\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/06\/nameless-malware-collects-1-2tb-of-sensitive-data-and-stashes-it-online\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>pipeline<\/p>\n<p>ransomware&#8211;beef<\/p>\n<p>internet outage<\/p>\n<p>drones over ocean<\/p>\n<p>Libya<\/p>\n<p>viruses<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"commentary\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1623716998\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Secret Tech Wars\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some U.S. officials suspect the so-called\u00a0Havana Syndrome\u00a0could be an unintentional byproduct of foreign efforts to collect intelligence from U.S. government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-commentary","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}