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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U.S. Military Spoof Spreads Malware
July 13, 2008
BitDefender geeks have identified a new wave of spam messages, using a spoof news report announcing an alleged attack of the U.S. Army against Iran in order to trick us into downloading and installing malicious software onto our computers.
The Web page hosting the piece of malware (dailydotnews.com) is a simple, yet efficiently designed site with a top banner, a simple picture masquerading a YouTube player and three lines of text detailing the U.S. operation in Iran.
This spam approach is used on large scale as the spammer relies on a catchy heading and a link to the piece of malware in order to fuel our curiosity and trick us into downloading the piece of malware.
Upon clicking on either the ‘movie’ or the top banner, you start the download process of a binary piece of malware, called ‘iran_occupation.exe.’ The file contains the same malicious code infecting you with the Storm Worm. The authors have used timing as their advantage, as the recent tensions in the Middle East between the U.S. and Iran have been escalating.
On the social side, the spam wave is targeting the increasingly worried U.S. citizens looking for fresh news on Iran threatening to burn Tel Aviv down in response to possible US attacks on its nuclear facilities. The BitDefender antivirus is currently filtering and detecting that both the spam message and the malicious code, ‘iran_occupation.exe’ binary, are infected with Trojan.Peed.PM.
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