{"id":50506,"date":"2022-07-15T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50506"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:29:20","slug":"reporter-impersonators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50506","title":{"rendered":"REPORTER IMPERSONATORS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-sponsored hackers from China, North Korea, Iran and Turkey have been regularly spying on and impersonating journalists from various media outlets in an effort to infiltrate their networks and gain access to sensitive information, according to a report released on Thursday by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report reveals that government-backed hackers used various tools to target journalists, including sending phishing emails to gain access to reporters\u2019 work emails, social media accounts and networks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report also suggested that state-sponsored hackers routinely pose as members of the media because of the \u201cunique access and information they can provide,\u201d to those countries\u2019 governments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hackers could potentially use information they obtained from compromised accounts to spread pro-state propaganda and influence \u201ca politically charged atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA well-timed, successful attack on a journalist\u2019s email account could provide insights into sensitive, budding stories and source identification,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-sponsored hackers from China, North Korea,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50507,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506\/revisions\/50507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}