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Hackers Planted Files to Frame Indian Priest Who Died in Custody

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According to Arsenal, Swamy never touched the files himself. After his devices were seized by Pune City Police, those files were among the digital evidence used to charge him and the other Bhima Koregaon 16 defendants with terrorism as well as inciting a riot in 2018 that led to two deaths.

All of Arsenal’s findings, the firm notes, match the earlier cases of evidence fabrication, seemingly carried out by the same hackers, that targeted the two defendants’ machines that Arsenal examined earlier. “Arsenal has effectively caught the attacker red-handed (yet again),” the report adds.

On Swamy’s computer, however, Arsenal also found something new: The hackers seem to have begun what Arsenal calls “antiforensics”—a clean-up operation–on June 11, 2019, deleting files that revealed its access to Swamy’s machine in an apparent attempt to cover their tracks, just a day before Pune Police seized Swamy’s computer on June 12 of that year. Arsenal describes that attempt at anti-forensics as “both unique and extremely suspicious given the computer’s imminent seizure.”

In other words, the hackers wanted to plant fake evidence that could be revealed to incriminate Swamy while also deleting actual evidence of their fabrications that might be discovered in legal proceedings, says Tom Hegel, a researcher for security firm Sentinel One. (Hegel and his colleague Juan Andres Guerrero‑Saade published their own findings on the Bhima Koregaon hacking cases this year.) Hegel argues the timing of that deletion, which he says displays a sloppy urgency, suggests the hackers somehow knew the seizure of Swamy’s devices was coming, and after five years of stealthy access to his computer, scrambled to erase their fingerprints. “The timing and the rushed cleanup effort is, in my opinion, clear evidence of collusion between the police unit and the attackers at that point,” Hegel says.

That cleanup is one of several signs that the hackers who targeted members of the Bhima Koregaon 16 may well have been working in league with the Pune City Police who arrested many of the defendants. Last June, Hegel and Guerrero‑Saade revealed to WIRED that an official in the Pune City Police appears to have added his own email…

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Who died in killing spree? Spoilers

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Two people and suspect have died following Sunday shooting in Security

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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and the Colorado Springs Police Department say they are no longer searching for a suspect that was wanted in connection with a shooting that claimed the life of a deputy on Sunday.

At approximately 5:07 p.m., the shooting happened in the 500 block of Ponderosa Drive in Security.

Sheriff Bill Elder told reporters that two deputies and an officer with the Fountain Police Department arrived at the scene and were immediately met with gunfire.

The officers returned fire and 39-year-old Deputy Andrew Peery was struck in the exchange. Despite life-saving measures, Deputy Peery later died of his injuries.

While on the scene, officers located a deceased woman in the 500 block of Ponderosa Drive.

Witnesses in the area weighed in on what they saw the evening of the shooting.

“I saw two cop cars there and then I went to go look 20 minutes later and there was SWAT and everything down there,” said Adrian Burciaga, a neighbor.

Terry Hampton, another neighbor said he witnessed the deputy trying to pull Peery to safety after he was shot.

“After he (Peery) got shot and hit the ground, the guy (Deputy) got behind the tree, and then when the guy (Paz) went in, he (Deputy) went over and grabbed the guy (Peery) and tried to pull him back over to where he was at,” said Hampton.

Hampton also said that this incident was unusual in the neighborhood.

“We’ve had shootings here before, we’ve had drive-by’s on houses, but that was a long time ago, nothing like this,” said Hampton.

Finding the right words to describe the tragedy that took place yesterday is impossible. As the chief of police and as a member of this community, my heart breaks for the two families who have lost loved ones and for the children who have lost a parent. From the community members who called for help, to the deputies, officers, and investigators who responded to the shooting, we are all left incredibly shaken. These tragedies are things I wish did not happen in our community; in the place all of us call home. When these types of horrific acts happen, there is nothing we can do to fully rebuild what was lost or to replace those who are no longer with us.

To families grieving…

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John McAfee, the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Who Died in a Spanish Jail

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John McAfee

made a fortune estimated at more than $100 million from antivirus software for computers in the early 1990s and then pursued an increasingly bizarre life of adventure and run-ins with legal authorities in the U.S., Central America and Europe.

“My personality is such I can’t do something halfway,” he told The Wall Street Journal in 2007. At the time, the entrepreneur was 61 years old and was then focused on his hobby of flying small, open-cockpit planes around the desert. Mr. McAfee’s legend continued to spread through his promotion of yoga and cryptocurrencies with unfiltered and sometimes sexually explicit and profanity-laden speech on social media and in interviews. He died Wednesday in a Spanish jail cell; authorities said his death was likely a suicide.

On Friday his wife,

Janice McAfee,

told reporters in Spain that John planned to appeal an extradition order to the U.S. in connection with federal tax-evasion charges, the Associated Press reported, and he told her Wednesday that “‘I love you and I will call you in the evening.’”

John David McAfee was born in England on Sept. 18, 1945, according to public records. He is widely reported to have been raised in Salem, Va., by an American father and a British mother.

A 2013 profile of him in Wired said his father worked as a road surveyor and his mother as a bank teller. The article quoted Mr. McAfee as saying his father was a heavy drinker and beat him and his mother severely. The father shot himself when John McAfee was 15, according to the Wired article, which quoted the software company founder as saying about his father: “Every relationship I have, he’s by my side; every mistrust, he is the negotiator of that mistrust.”

He graduated from Roanoke College in 1967 with a degree in mathematics. Over the next two decades, he worked for a variety of companies including

Lockheed Corp.

doing work involving computers and software. As a sideline, he operated a business called American Institute for Safe Sex Practices, one of several ventures that sold…

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