Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, told Business Insider on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is attempting legal representation to aid the former Air Force language analyst contractor and Kingsville native Reality Winner with her case.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2016 following her separation from six years of active duty, Winner was hired by Pluribus International Corporation under an NSA contract to work out of Fort Gordon, Georgia.
According to ABC News, Winner printed a classified report detailing how Russian hackers allegedly “executed cyber espionage operations” on local election systems and mailed the documents to The Intercept.
She was arrested on June 3, 2017.
Amazing! Thank you. My daughter Reality Leigh Winner is yet another victim of this admin. Doing hard time for bringing the truth to light. #FreeRealityWinnerhttps://t.co/wU0sg3LeRs
Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign violations and tax fraud in 2018, began serving his sentence in May 2019 at the federal penitentiary in Otisville, New York.
He has been under house arrest since July over coronavirus concerns.
Military.com stated that Reality’s mother sent a Twitter message that said “Cohen has asked another attorney to look at the case and for opportunities to help.”
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Goverment responds to Top Exec Email Scams
April 17, 2008
Thousands of U.S. executives were targeted in a phishing scam with fake e-mail messages that appear to be official federal court subpoenas.
The message commands the recipient to appear before a grand jury in a civil case, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The newspaper said a recipient who tries to view the document ends up installing software that secretly records keystrokes and sends the data to a remote computer. Another piece of software allows the computer to be controlled remotely.
Security researchers said at least several thousand computers have been compromised by the attack. Less than 40 percent of commercial anti-virus programs were able to recognize and stop the attack.
The e-mail scam purports to notify the executive about court proceedings and tries to get them to click a link that installs keylogging software as well as software designed to let a hacker take control of the computer. Unfortunately, social engineering, the process of tricking a user into trusting requests from a hacker, is getting to be a major problem, and if the hackers are successful in their latest attack, they could be holding some valuable passwords.
The government is responding by closing thousands of paths from their networks to the Internet as a result of an order by President Bush. At least one security researcher has begun to develop software that will allow him to infect hacking tools with his own malware as security in those tools is lacking.
Many if not most users are used to phishing scams by now. I probably get at least four or five a day, with most pretending to be a bank or other financial institution that needs to “verify your information.” Many speculate that the vast majority of phishing scams originate in China, but the unsettling part of this newest attack is the fact that financial institutions were heavily attacked, in particular one sector that a security researcher declined to identify for security reasons.
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