A Sinaloa drug cartel hacker was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday:
The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attaché’s phone number “to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data.” The report said the hacker also “used Mexico City’s camera system to follow the (FBI official) through the city and identify people the (official) met with.”
The report said “the cartel used that information to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses.”
https://www.zdnet.com/article/it-myths-colombian-drugs-gangs-mainframe-assisted-assassinations/
Some organizations are just not very good in learning lessons.
The further it gets, the more ridiculous misnomers become.
«Gangs adopted cutting edge security measures, they conduct large scale data mining and counterintelligence operations»… «hooligans used a mortar battery», etc etc.
Freddo says:
Perhaps they believe their own hype too much to assess the situation soberly.
This was before AI tools were readily available. I imagine Sinaloa will now up their game.