Maksym Igor Popov tricked the FBI, infiltrated LulzSec, got early access to WikiLeaks and used APT infrastructure using a playbook that would return with Guccifer 2.0 and DC Leaks.
Early this morning, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas Mayor’s office received an email from Barrett Brown containing a secret recording of a phone call, a copy of which was released today by Distributed…
Documents from a leaked FBI file reveal more of the symbiotic relationship between WikiLeaks and the hackers that supplied the organization with the Stratfor emails and the Syria files, two of the organization’s largest and most significant publications….
Update: After publication, WikiLeaks responded by tweeting a version on pastelink. They posted (and were apparently the first to tweet) 1.3, archived here, compared to v1.2 which was sent out to journalists yesterday. This is…
Fidel Narváez’s complaint to The Guardian over their reporting on Julian Assange contests several articles of key contention. These include reports of a plan to smuggle Assange to Russia, and of a series of meetings…
On Friday, December 21st, WikiLeaks released a collection of “shopping lists” from American embassies around the world. The release was accompanied by stories from their media partners documenting things like “
An envoy from the U.K. recently opined that WikiLeaks has created a “trust deficit,” and that the modern age’s increased transparency and openness has hindered diplomatic relations and caused diplomats to rethink how they handle…
Hours before Russian hacking operations targeted Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the spring of 2016, WikiLeaks discussed offering a monetary reward for transcripts of her speeches at Goldman Sachs. Soon after, Russian hackers launched a spear…
A review of interviews with participants, video footage, sealed files and other documents show that the FBI had not been in the process of “framing” WikiLeaks but was following a trail of evidence that posed a significant threat to the organization and its leadership.
Early in his tenure as CIA Director, Pompeo gave a speech in which he famously said that “WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service,” and in fact is…