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Twin Brothers: Kill Switches In Plain Sight

8/4/2026
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Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter were once hailed as gifted programmers with access to some of the U.S. government's most sensitive computer systems. But prosecutors say that after being fired from a federal contractor, they launched a retaliatory cyberattack that deleted dozens of government databases, stole sensitive records, and exposed critical weaknesses in insider security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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