{"id":4300,"date":"2025-04-16T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:24:38","slug":"us-lawyer-alleges-uk-intelligence-firm-funded-hacking-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/us-lawyer-alleges-uk-intelligence-firm-funded-hacking-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"US Lawyer Alleges UK Intelligence Firm Funded Hacking Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>US Lawyer Alleges UK Intelligence Firm Funded Hacking Campaign<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A New York-based attorney is seeking to nullify a prior legal ruling, claiming his case was compromised by illicit surveillance allegedly paid for by a British intelligence company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a motion filed last Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, Daniel Feldman accused the UK investigations firm Vantage Intelligence of financially backing hackers who intercepted confidential discussions between him and his legal team during a lawsuit that unfolded between 2016 and 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time, Feldman was defending himself against accusations from companies linked to the dissolved Russian oil conglomerate Yukos. He contends that Vantage\u2019s actions tilted the proceedings unfairly in their favor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although Feldman was ultimately found liable in 2019 for violating fiduciary responsibilities to certain Yukos-affiliated firms, the jury awarded just $5 in damages and found no actual harm. His law license was later suspended for one year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He now argues the trial was irreparably influenced by cyber intrusions, which justifies vacating the verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Efforts to reach representatives of the Yukos-affiliated entities, located in the British Virgin Islands and the Netherlands, were unsuccessful. U.S. lawyers for those entities did not respond to multiple inquiries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vantageintelligence.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vantage Intelligence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> redirected questions to an attorney who also failed to respond. The firm attracted attention in 2023 when Erik Prince\u2014founder of Blackwater and associate of former President Donald Trump\u2014was appointed to its advisory board.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Feldman\u2019s motion does not mention Prince, nor is he accused of involvement. Messages to Prince and his lawyer went unanswered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Related news:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/global-cybersecurity-network-at-risk-as-mitre-faces-funding-halt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Cybersecurity Network at Risk as MITRE Faces Funding Halt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Global Pattern of Legal Espionage Emerges<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feldman\u2019s filing follows recent investigations from 2022 and 2023, which revealed how mercenary hackers, often based in India, had been employed to infiltrate parties in legal disputes worldwide. Feldman was among thousands identified as victims of this activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His filing notes that U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan informed him privately that his email had been accessed without permission prior to the 2023 sentencing of Aviram Azari, an Israeli private investigator known for operating in the hack-for-hire space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice Department<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> declined to comment, and Azari\u2014who has since returned to Israel\u2014did not reply to inquiries. A former associate told Reuters that Azari \u201crefuses to discuss anything related to his previous conviction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Feldman, Azari hired Indian operatives on behalf of Vantage and billed the company approximately 357,000 euros (about $404,800) for the job. Feldman believes this undermined his right to a fair trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEmail was my primary means of communication with my attorneys,\u201d Feldman stated. \u201cIt belies common sense that it did not create an unfair advantage for the plaintiffs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Learn more<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/comptia\/cybersecurity-compliance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cybersecurity Compliance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Lawyer Alleges UK Intelligence Firm Funded Hacking Campaign A New York-based attorney is seeking to nullify a prior legal ruling, claiming his case was compromised by illicit surveillance allegedly paid for by a British intelligence company. 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