Three former intelligence agents that belonged to the US have recently gone on to admit in a Virginia Court on Tuesday that they actually took part in the hacking which took place with respect to the United Arab Emirates hacking operation – the operation which of course was subject to being aimed at the enemies as well as the rivals of the gulf country.
The two men namely Marc Baier who is aged 49, and also the other being Ryan Adam’s aged 34 and also Gericke – aged 40, all have actually agreed to pay a cumulative amount for $1.7 million which are based on penalties. This sum represents the amount of money that these three men earned while working for the UAE so as to resolve the charges which were subject to a violation in the US export controls, computer fraud and also the illegal use of access of other people’s computers.
The federal district court based in Alexandria, Virginia has agreed upon a proposal to defer prosecution for as long as three years in respect to the rather complex case which has come about. This also took a long turn in highlighting the global market of government’s seeking highly trained computer security experts – all in order to spy on the perceived enemies and threats as well.
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All three also have had a history of working in the US intelligence community – which also of course includes the National Security Agency as well as the military.
In accordance with what the Justice department has actually stated, all three had worked for a US company which provided cyber intelligence operation for the UAE government – an operation which also met US regulations.
The three men involved then ended up moving to higher paid jobs five years ago in 2016 which was at a UAE based government-linked company and this company has in fact been identified as DarkMatter. It was then that the men actually began the process of carrying out jobs in relation to hacking – aiming towards designated targets including servers based in the United States itself.
It’s also important to note then that aside from just paying the fines, all three men have also been stripped of US security clearances and have also been banned from both the US intelligence community and of course have also been banned from hacking.
