SURVEILLANCE TECH PROVIDER PROTEI WAS HACKED

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Protei, a Russian telecom company that develops technology to enable phone and internet companies to conduct web surveillance and censorship, was hacked. The attackers defaced its website and stole 182GB of data, including confidential emails. The threat actor defaced the website with the message “another DPI/SORM provider bites the dust,” referring to the company's sales of deep packet inspection and other internet filtering technologies developed for the Russian lawful intercept system.