'Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists: New details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims' computers that led to their arrest.'

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Sukla Sen

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Jun 19, 2022, 6:53:02 AM6/19/22

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Police targetting and hacking citizens' computers and planting "evidence" to implicate.

Imprisonment as "undertrial" for years following.

"New India"!!!

<<More than a year ago, forensic analysts revealed that unidentified hackers fabricated evidence on the computers of at least two activists arrested in Pune, India, in 2018, both of whom have languished in jail and, along with 13 others, face terrorism charges. Researchers at security firm SentinelOne and nonprofits Citizen Lab and Amnesty International have since linked that evidence fabrication to a broader hacking operation that targeted hundreds of individuals over nearly a decade, using phishing emails to infect targeted computers with spyware, as well as smartphone hacking tools sold by the Israeli hacking contractor NSO Group. But only now have SentinelOne’s researchers revealed ties between the hackers and a government entity: none other than the very same Indian police agency in the city of Pune that arrested multiple activists based on the fabricated evidence [emphasis added].>>

(Excerpted from: <https://www.wired.com/story/modified-elephant-planted-evidence-hacking-police/>.)

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