Jeffrey Epstein had a ‘personal hacker’, informant claims

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According to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday, an informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker.” The document, first reported by TechCrunch, was released as part of a trove of materials the Justice Department is legally required to release in connection with the investigation into the late sex offender. The document does not provide an identity for the alleged hacker, but it does include some details: They were allegedly born in Italy in the southern Calabria region, and their hacking operation focused on discovering vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, BlackBerry devices, and the Firefox browser. The informant told the FBI that the hacker “was very good at finding vulnerabilities.”

The hacker allegedly developed offensive hacking tools including exploiting unknown and/or unpatched vulnerabilities and allegedly sold them to several countries, including the unnamed Central African government, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The informant even told the FBI that the hacker sold the exploit to Hezbollah and received a “cash box” in exchange for payment. It is unclear whether the informant’s account is accurate or whether the FBI has verified the report.

Viral OpenClaw AI Assistant— previously called Clawdbot and then briefly Moltbot — has taken Silicon Valley by storm this week. Techs allow the assistant to control their digital lives: linking it to online accounts and letting it complete tasks for them. assistant, As WIRED reportedIt runs on a personal computer, connects to other AI models, and can be granted permission to access Gmail, Amazon, and dozens of other accounts. “I could basically automate anything,” one entrepreneur told WIRED. “It was magical.”

They weren’t the only ones interested in the capable AI assistant. Creators of OpenClaw He says More than 2 million people visited the project over the past week. However, her agentic abilities come with potential Security and privacy trade-offs– Starting with the need to provide access to online accounts – which can make it impractical for many people to operate securely. As OpenClaw’s popularity has grown, security researchers have identified “hundreds” of cases where users have exposed their systems on the web, Registration has been reported. Many of them did not include any authentication and provided full access to the users’ system.