Raphael Satter, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

FILE - This July 16, 2013 file photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook said Thursday, May 16, 2019, that it has banned Archimedes, an Israeli company that ran an influence campaign aimed at disrupting elections in various countries, and has canceled dozens of accounts engaged in spreading disinformation. Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, told reporters that the tech giant had purged 65 Israeli accounts, 161 pages, dozens of...

Facebook busts online campaign of disinformation

by Isabel Debre Associated Press, and Raphael Satter Associated PressMay 16, 2019

JERUSALEM — Facebook said Thursday it banned an Israeli company that ran an influence campaign aimed at disrupting elections in various countries and has canceled dozens of accounts engaged in spreading disinformation.Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s…

FILE - In this file photo taken on Sunday, April 22, 2018, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia. Veselnitskaya, the Moscow lawyer said to have promised Donald Trump’s presidential campaign dirt on his Democratic opponent, worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov, File)

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Lawyer who met Trump Jr. tied to Russian officials

by Raphael Satter AP Cybersecurity WriterJuly 27, 2018

In this Feb. 25, 2012, photo, Professor Stephen Hawking poses beside a lamp titled 'black hole light' by inventor Mark Champkins, presented to him during his visit to the Science Museum in London. Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, died early Wednesday, March 18, 2018, a University of Cambridge spokesman said. He was 76.

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Stephen Hawking, tourist of the universe, dead at 76

by Raphael Satter Associated PressMarch 14, 2018

Procera offices are seen on Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Fremont, Calif. Researchers have found evidence that the company's hardware - now sold by Canadian firm Sandvine - is being used to hack internet users along Turkey's border with Syria. Forbes has reported that engineers at the firm were so troubled at the prospect of supplying surveillance hardware for use by a Turkish telecoms company that six of them quit in protest. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

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Watchdog: Western tech used for hacking in Turkey, Syria

by Raphael Satter Associated PressMarch 9, 2018

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006 file photo, Sergei Skripal speaks to his lawyer from behind bars seen on a screen of a monitor outside a courtroom in Moscow. It has been reported on Monday, March 5, 2018 by the British media that Skripal is in critical condition after exposure to 'unknown substance' in English city of Salisbury. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)

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Former Russian spy in Britain in intensive care after exposure to unknown substance

by Raphael Satter Associated Press, and Martin Benedyk Associated PressMarch 5, 2018

FILE - In this Monday, July 19, 2006 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President George W Bush attend a working dinner with the other leaders of the G8 nations, as Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin stands on the right, in St. Petersburg, Russia. While Russian officials have denigrated a U.S. indictment charging 13 Russians with meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential vote through an elaborate social media campaign, former Internet trolls employed at the...

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Insiders detail madcap antics at Russian troll farm

by Raphael Satter Associated Press, and Nataliya Vasilyeva Associated PressFebruary 20, 2018

This combination of photos shows an Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet, left, an MQ-9 Reaper/"Predator B" drone, right, and an X-37B unmanned spacecraft, bottom. Data supplied by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks shows Fancy Bear’s hacking targets included defense contractor employees at Lockheed Martin, General Atomics, and Boeing, involved in the development of these systems.

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Russian hackers hunt hi-tech secrets, exploiting US weakness

by Jeff Donn Associated Press, Desmond Butler Associated Press, and Raphael Satter Associated PressFebruary 7, 2018

In this Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 photo, Dozhd Channel anchor Pavel Lobkov, prepares for a broadcast in their studio-apartment in Moscow, Russia. In December 2015, Lobkov was getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web. “I think the hackers in the service of the Fatherland were long getting their training on our lot before venturing outside.” (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Russian hackers hunted journalists in years-long campaign

by Raphael Satter Associated Press, Jeff Donn Associated Press, and Nataliya Vasilyeva Associated PressDecember 22, 2017

Seen though an interior window, an employee looks at computer screens in the offices of Secureworks in Atlanta on Oct. 4, 2017. Nineteen thousand lines of targeting data obtained from threat intelligence firm Secureworks lays out in unprecedented detail who the hackers tried to compromise, providing a minute-by-minute look at how the group often dubbed "Fancy Bear" penetrated the Democratic National Committee, tried to break into the Clinton campaign and eventually stole chairman John Podesta's emails. (AP Photo/Marina Hutchinson)

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Russia’s hackers took only a week to pry into Clinton camp

by Raphael Satter Associated Press, Jeff Donn Associated Press, and Chad Day Associated PressNovember 3, 2017

French soldiers stand near the scene where French soldiers were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017.

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Man ambushes French soldiers with car

by Angela Charlton Associated Press, and Raphael Satter Associated PressAugust 10, 2017