Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name

Remember Appin? It’s the Indian “hack for hire” company that got so upset about Reuters’ giant investigation — which detailed how Appin grew into a “leading cyberespionage firm” that “stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe” — that it convinced an Indian court to make Reuters take the story down. Then, when we wrote about them forcing Reuters to take down the article, they demanded we take down our article as well, claiming that we violated a court order (to which we were not a party) by republishing some of the Reuters article (which we did not even do). Depressingly, plenty of other publications — including the vaunted Lawfare...

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