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Chinese hackers have been using VLC Media Player to spread malware to their victims. Chinese hackers have been caught using VLC Media Player to spread malware to its victims, which includes various groups linked to the government, legal, and religious affairs.

Its promising athletes free access to the internet and social media. both are censored for everybody else in the country and experts say it may be a friendly gesture to foreigners or may not be that it seems, but anyone using the internet in china an easy target for the hacker spies. tom cotton joins us now. senator, great to see you. lock down 20 million in free provinces, thats the bad news, but good news, giving free social media to athletes. >> we all post freely about chinas crackdown and i...

History. it was focused on you crain. it just leaked out of the region. >> wow. so one of the things when we get back to the u.s. i remember and thought about this as i was reading this last year, you know, the pipeline disruptions we had here from those hacker. im wondering what is your level of confidence that the u.s. is equipped to deal with something from russia that is maybe that much more treacherous. >> right now is a very important time for defermds. were urging them to prepare, to hard...

A court ruled against an appeal that would allow for extradition to the u.s. he faces 18 charges, including violation of the espionage act. what does todays ruling mean, raf? >> reporter: todays ruling means assange can appeal his extra digs to britains supreme court. if they dont, the decision on whether or not he is sent to the u.s. will go to the british home secretary, basically the top domestic attorney here in britain. this is just the latest twice in this very long-running legal saga. ass...

Stolen funds were worth around $71 million. the value has soreed to around 4.5 billion and bitcoin took a hit. it would have been 30% more in november. the hacker transferred the 120,000 stolen bitcoin from the hack to a digital wallet prosecutors say were under their control. the couple conspired to launder the funds through numerous techniques including using fiction identities. millions cashed out through atms and spent on items from nft to wal-mart gift cards. this is important. the d.o. jo....

Investigation of former president donald j trump, wrote fani williss district attorney in the first sentence of her letter addressed to mr. j c hacker, special agent in charge, atlanta field office, federal bureau of investigation. the letter request additional security because of donald trumps public threats against district eternally willis, and other prosecutors investigating donald trump in new york, and washington. fani willis letter is secede to 19 people. all of them, georgia government o...

Right now it means that people cannot access at least these two websites. john, this is obviously something were keeping a very close eye on. when we talk about the potential for russia to cause mischief to invade ukraine, its not just from a military standpoint. we talk about hybrid warfare. russia can attack on a number of different fronts. militarily, in terms of disinformation, weve seen all kinds of disinformation both in russia, in order to get the russian people on their side and for a po...

Cyberattack happened at the defense ministry, did it affect the command and control outlets and links to the troops on the ground? if this is just an attack of the ministry of defense building and its office workers, thats one thing. if this is interrupting the communications that the defense ministry has with its tactical units, thats a completely different thing. >> walk through that, the varying degrees. if putin is just trying to poke, he can do one thing. if putin is probing to see, can he ...

Ukraine would know for sure that it emerged out of russia. >> yeah, joy, this is a hacker penetrating into a system and shutting down a computer network. instead, the whole idea is that you call up massive numbers of computer, to essentially get a website request at the same time. imagine a hose and funnel, youre overflowing the funnel with water, the systems cant respond to it. we see this when we have very famous fixers, maybe show up on social media and somebody says the system goes down, the...

That was hacked. and released just by coincidence the day that justin trudeau announced that he was going to hunt bank accounts anyone who donated to the truckers. i learned something shocking earlier tonight at the hacker who takes responsibility for it was one of the founders of the anonymous cow hacking group he is posting about it in public saying that he worked with canada spy agencies. i dont if that is true for him just bragging about something. but actually the timing fits. as i dont thi...