The charges against Julian Assange have escalated

Julian Assange

Last year just around this time, the scandal that was caused due to the arrest of Julian Assange (the founder of WikiLeaks) due to a series of allegations that he published classified documents They contain "the names of sources who provided information to US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and to US State Department diplomats around the world."

During all this type, various actions were raised, from the addition of charges, a request for extradition to the United States to be tried and well, also the acceptance of said request, which is pending until now.

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Now in new news, new evidence against him was released, since these indicate that he recruited hackers to gain access to various systems, including that of a NATO country in 2010.

His lawyers claim that the procedure is based on "lies". For its part, WikiLeaks said in a tweet that these new accusations constituted "another pathetic attempt by the Justice Department to mislead the public."

“The new indictment does not add additional charges to the old 18-count indictment that was brought against Assange in May 2019. However, it broadens the scope of the conspiracy surrounding the alleged computer intrusions that Assange was previously charged with. According to the prosecution document, Assange and others at WikiLeaks have recruited and arranged with hackers to commit computer intrusions for the benefit of WikiLeaks, "said the US Department of Justice.

The new document establishes en particular that in 2010, the founder of WikiLeaks I would have asked a 17-year-old hacker, residing in a NATO member state, intrusions into your country's government system and also »obtain tapes of telephone conversations between senior officials, including members of parliament.

Assange then instructed the hacker to operate, manage, and monitor the WikiLeaks internet relay chat channel.

Towards the end of 2010, a hacker affiliated with Anonymous with the name of Laurelai, who identified herself as a member of the Gnosis group, contacted the young hacker.

He later said he was "in charge of recruiting" for WikiLeaks. Laurelai then introduced the young hacker to Kayla, a pillar of the Gnosis. Kayla and Laurelai have allegedly stated that they are ready to commit computer intrusions on behalf of WikiLeaks.

In March 2011, Laurelai gave WikiLeaks unpublished zero-day vulnerabilities, that can be used to hack computer systems. He also submitted a list of around 200 email accounts allegedly used by the US government, including the passwords of IT specialists in government institutions.

In May 2011, members of Anonymous, including those who participated in "Operation Payback," decided to create the LulzSec group.

The latter was organized around Sabu, whose real name is Héctor Xavier Monsegur, arrested a month later in New York. Members of the group hacked into the computers of various audiovisual companies and published the passwords used by their journalists, affiliates and employees, in retaliation for the negative media coverage of WikiLeaks.

The group also bragged about carrying out a DdoS attack on the CIA's public website.

“An indictment contains accusations that a defendant has committed a crime. Assange is presumed innocent unless and until his guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt, "says the Justice Department.

If found guilty, you incur a 10-year sentence for each count, Except for the computer intrusion charge, whose maximum limit is 5 years, or 175 years in total.

In addition, the British justice has postponed the examination of the extradition request until September 7, due to the Covid-19 crisis.

His lawyers had requested bail due to his health risks related to the pandemic. But Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected the request, at least until June 29, the date of the next administrative hearing.

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  1.   Reneco said

    And was he not accused of allying with Xi Jinping in the design of SARS-CoV-2 to conquer the world?

    1.    jurfh said

      What is clear, that of course he would recruit or negotiate with other hackers, etc., for everything, of which, supposedly, he is accused, it is clear that he is not going to do it alone, he has had to have help. Note that I am not blaming him, there should be more guys like this, in fact today hackers do too little, as they could do, there should be thousands of Julian Assange.

  2.   Manu said

    For me, since it was discovered that he had collected money from the Catalan independence movement to campaign for independence, and above all with fakes of a kindergarten manual that made him a laughingstock on the networks in those days, he lost all credibility . It is clear that only money moves him, he has the same ethics as a snake.

    1.    l1ch said

      Do your job then, make your own "Wikileaks".

  3.   James said

    How pathetic, these from the Government ... can't you invent more things?
    come on, they've caught hackers (no, it's the same as pirates), and they've been told. that either cooperate against papanoel, or they are fled…. and here we are ..