Reuters reports that the FBI has been investigating DCI Group, a DC based lobbying + PR firm, for allegedly hiring hackers to break into activists’ emails. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-lobbyist-investigated-over-hack-and-leak-environmentalist-emails-sources-2024-11-27/
The report focuses on environmental activists who appear to have been targeted at the behest of ExxonMobil, one of DCI Group’s largest clients. But one of DCI Group’s other highest-paying clients is Verizon...
https://readsludge.com/2024/12/03/big-oils-cybermercenary-lobbyists-exposed/
...and the same hacker-for-hire ring implicated in the investigation was caught red-handed targeting Fight for the Future and other activists who helped win net neutrality protections in the US in 2017.
A bit 'phishy' if you ask us.
