Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE

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On Sept. 7, U.S. citizens, Marc Baier, 49, and Ryan Adams, 34, and a former U.S. citizen, Daniel Gericke, 40, all former employees of the U.S. Intelligence Community or the U.S. military, entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that restricts their future activities and employment and requires the payment of $1,685,000 in penalties to resolve a Department of Justice investigation regarding violations of U.S. export control, computer fraud and access device fraud laws. "A U.S. person's status as a former U.S. government employee certainly does not provide them with a free pass in that regard." "This is a clear message to anybody, including former U.S. government employees, who had considered using cyberspace to leverage export-controlled information for the benefit of a foreign government or a foreign commercial company - there is risk, and there will be consequences." "Today's announcement shines a light on the unlawful activity of three former members of the U.S. Intelligence Community and military," said Assistant Director in Charge Steven M. D'Antuono of the FBI's Washington Field Office. After leaving U.S. government employment, Baier, Adams and Gericke worked for a U.S. Company that provided cyber services to a U.A.E. government agency in compliance with the ITAR pursuant to a DDTC-issued Technical Assistance Agreement signed by U.S. Company One, the U.A.E. government, and its relevant intelligence agency. Over an 18-month period, CIO employees, with defendants' support, direction and supervision, created two similar "Zero-click" computer hacking and intelligence gathering systems that leveraged servers in the United States belonging to a U.S. technology company to obtain remote, unauthorized access to any of the tens of millions of smartphones and mobile devices utilizing a U.S. Company Two-provided operating system. In addition to the financial penalties, as part of the DPA, the defendants agreed to full cooperation with the relevant Department and FBI components; the immediate relinquishment of any foreign or U.S. security clearances; a lifetime ban on future U.S. security clearances; and certain future employment restrictions, including a prohibition on employment that involves CNE activity or exporting defense articles or providing defense services under the ITAR, and restrictions on employment for certain U.A.E. organizations.
Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE



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