Special Thanks To Everyone Who Have Helped AGN.News Find Success!
AGN.News
February 24, 2021
PHOENIX ARIZONA – To find success online requires a determination to succeed on the part of the entire tech team, research and development team, and many others. In the height of COVID-19 we face many challenges.
We wanted to share a list of many of those who have volunteered their time and resources to make AGN.News what it is today.
First, we’ll like to thank Cortez (not his real name) for his 6 year effort to give us help organizing a team who found vulnerabilities and highlighted them which lead our tech team to correct them. This process was invaluable in making AGN.News what it is today.
Next, Cortez brought on cell phone “security experts” who were able to help us (by use) secure our phones from malware. By showing us how it’s done we were able to help many others secure their phones. We look forward to the time when he will show us how to keep people from listening to phone calls by using encrypted apps.
Additionally, over the past several weeks there has been an uptick in the cyber attacks on the personal cell phones of family and friends of these veterans and seniors who support our effort to help local communities. Cortez says this is the same cyber criminal group installing malware on mobile applications.
Our world changed dramatically when we were told via email that there was a lot of malware on our training apps. Upon calling the number in the email we meet Melanie (not her real name). Thanks to her, this began a four year fight against malware. Malware designed to destroy websites. Sure enough what she said did, in fact, happen. Over 63 applications were destroyed in one day. Malware is a constant battle online and on cell phones.
Nothing changed us more than “agents” for a cyber crime group, who one senior called “cyber terrorists”. If it wasn’t for Ivan (not his real name) we would not have been able to identify their schemes and tactics. He alerted us to the use of weaponized email, that is using email as a weapon to threaten or intimidate their intended victims.
This is when cyber criminals use the global email system for threats and intimidation. Not being content with this “email spear phishing” campaign, they’re using the global email system to send sexually explicit messages (xxx rated) to their targets. Some of our team members have reported receiving over 1,368 of such email.
Ivan alerted us to the use of agents or “friends” in law enforcement or former members of law enforcement who use government assets to check on the personal lives and locations of individuals to be targeted or victimize. (Is that legal?)
We owe a great deal of thanks to “Ivan” for alerting us of the danger of being run off the road while traveling. Sure enough, two days before Christmas 2020, a two man team in two vehicles did in fact try to kill one of our volunteers by forcing his vehicle into oncoming traffic. They made their escape by exiting to a nearby freeway. We were so thankful to Ivan.
Now, our gratitude goes to Juan (not his real name) who alerted to us to “agents” inside a domain company. This “group” used this agent to “lock” our domain account (account over 15 years old) in an effort to “steal” these digital assets. These domains were part of our desire to train wounded military veterans in the tech field. After many many days and a lot of “red tape” they released the domains.
Thanks to Juan we were also alerted to the existence of “agents” inside a legitimate “cyber security” company who uses scanning software to harvest personal data from hosting accounts and shares this data with this cyber criminals or hackers. This data is invaluable to hackers. It contains usernames, passwords, ip addresses and much more.
Juan advised us to be on the lookout for “popups ads” appearing on computer screens. These are the same type of actionable popups cyber criminals are using to exploit our children who are at home taking online classes. He stressed these people will stop at nothing to corrupt our children.
The interesting thing is that this program was in its infancy with everyone learning website technology together when all of this started. At the time of this hacking and malware installation, this account was a little over 4 years old.
There was nothing we could do to prevent the destruction of over 162 applications then plus 47 last month. That’s right this cyber criminal group is still in full operation, now we’re in the seventh year of this destructive behavior. Fortunately, volunteers have come forward to restore these applications and help protect them.
A special thanks goes to one of our senior volunteers (now 90 years old Korean War veteran who could type over 100 words per minute) name “David” (not his real name), whose body has literally taken a turn on a downward trajectory due largely to the hundreds of harassing hangup calls, destruction of his programs, and the loss of his home of 30 years due to being harassed and threatened by these same cyber criminals. Ivan said these cyber criminals are “on the clock” and work for an unidentified company.
At this exact moment, he was admitted to the hospital … yes, this morning. Hackers don’t know or don’t care who they hurt. We wish him a speedy recovery.
We have to give special thanks to Charles (not his real name) for warning us that agents are planning a dramatic strike on all of the veterans and seniors who are working on this platform soon. Hackers want this news program and other applications offline. We will update this later.
For now, we are thankful for all of the help being given to make AGN.News a success. As for all of the aforementioned alleged actions, time will reveal the exact identity and motive of the perpetrators.
OMS Security says this probably is the cyber criminal group called CICO-SILO14. If so, OMS says, “Now having some of CICO-SILO14 cyber activities exposed gives hope to victims that the end of their pain is near”. As award winning writer, Zora Neale Hurston once wrote, “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
In the meantime, our special gratitude goes out to everyone who share our common goal to share current local and global news and who believes in press freedom.
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