For eight years, BellTroX InfoTech Services has cracked more than 10 thousand accounts in email services.
An unknown little Indian IT company provides hacking services, and in eight years has cracked more than 10 thousand accounts in email services.
BellTroX InfoTech Services, a Delhi-registered company, attacked European government officials, casino tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known US investors, including companies such as KKR and Muddy Waters. This was reported to Reuters by three former employees and third-party researchers. BellTroX attacks on targets in the United States are currently under investigation, but the Justice Department does not comment on the situation.
In a telephone conversation with Reuters reporters, BellTroX owner Sumit Gupta declined to name the company's customers, but stated that she was not doing anything illegal.
According to Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters, he is “disappointed, but not surprised,” that the company could become a target for hackers. KKR declined to comment.
Citizen Lab’s specialists, who have studied the infrastructure used by cybercriminals for more than two years, are confident that BellTroX employees are behind the cyber espionage campaign. “This is one of the largest disclosed custom espionage operations,” said Citizen Lab researcher John Scott-Railton, noting that the services of “mercenary hackers” are currently very popular.
The data cache studied by Reuters specialists gives an idea of the company's operations. Hackers developed tens of thousands of malicious messages that were sent to victims in order to lure passwords from them in the period from 2013 to 2020. This data is actually a digital list of targets with dates of cyber attacks. How many attacks were successful failed to be established.
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An unknown little Indian IT company provides hacking services, and in eight years has cracked more than 10 thousand accounts in email services.
BellTroX InfoTech Services, a Delhi-registered company, attacked European government officials, casino tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known US investors, including companies such as KKR and Muddy Waters. This was reported to Reuters by three former employees and third-party researchers. BellTroX attacks on targets in the United States are currently under investigation, but the Justice Department does not comment on the situation.
In a telephone conversation with Reuters reporters, BellTroX owner Sumit Gupta declined to name the company's customers, but stated that she was not doing anything illegal.
According to Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters, he is “disappointed, but not surprised,” that the company could become a target for hackers. KKR declined to comment.
Citizen Lab’s specialists, who have studied the infrastructure used by cybercriminals for more than two years, are confident that BellTroX employees are behind the cyber espionage campaign. “This is one of the largest disclosed custom espionage operations,” said Citizen Lab researcher John Scott-Railton, noting that the services of “mercenary hackers” are currently very popular.
The data cache studied by Reuters specialists gives an idea of the company's operations. Hackers developed tens of thousands of malicious messages that were sent to victims in order to lure passwords from them in the period from 2013 to 2020. This data is actually a digital list of targets with dates of cyber attacks. How many attacks were successful failed to be established.
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