A leaked transcript of a phone conversation between President Donald Trump and his Philippine counterpart was available online for weeks before surfacing in news reports, and it now appears to be just one of a series of sensitive Philippine government documents acquired by a hacker group with suspected ties to the Vietnamese government, according to research conducted by multiple cybersecurity experts and evidence gathered by CyberScoop. On May 15, eight days before either The Intercept or the Washington Post reported about the transcript of Trump’s call with President Rodrigo Duterte, someone uploaded what appears to be the same document to the repository VirusTotal along with malicious email attachments. How The Intercept and the Post originally obtained their own copies of the Trump-Duterte transcript — which unnamed U.S. officials confirmed as authentic — remains unclear. The leak appears to be bigger than just one document. Included in the dump were notes regarding a conversation between Duterte […]
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