A Mexican drug cartel employed a hacker to surveil the movements of senior FBI agents in Mexico City in 2018 or earlier gaining data from city camera system that permitted the cartel to murder FBI informants, the Justice Department inspector general said in latest report.
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The hacker tracker person coming in and out of the US Embassy in Mexico City before zeroing in on the FBI assistant legal attache a role that works closely with Mexican law enforcement the report added, citing FBI case agent at the time.
The report did not mention the hacker.
According to case agent the cartel used to intimidate and in some cases kill potential sources or helping witnesses says the inspector general report which was review of FBI approach to saving sensitive data and avoiding surveillance.
The hacker was able to see calls made and recieved by FBI agents and their geolocation data in major breach of operational security that happened as FBI was working on case of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaqin El Chapo Guzman Loera the Inspector General added.
The FBI DEA and US army have in latest years used advance surveillance techniques to attempt to infiltrate Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartel the other mega Mexican Cartel that US official says smuggles mega volumes of deadly fentanyl into the US CNN said in April that CIA was reviewing its authorities to used lethal force against cartels.
The surprising latest details show a rare look at how technology can be exploited in high stakes fight between Mexican cartels and US law agencies.
The Trump administration had made cracking down on cartels a national security preference by announcing them as foreign terrorists groups.
The cartels run multi billion dollar global enterprise and used sophisticated technology to increase their business working.
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Derek Maltz told media.
Tehy utilized state of art sophisticated surveillance techniques to identify law enforcement activities and their adversaries.
The FBI is working on strategic plan to address few of inspector general worries about bureau approach to threat the report added.
The bureau pointed queries about the inspector general report to Justice Department.
With El Chapo now in Jail the cartels themselves are enhancingly run by a younger generation tech savvy drug lords.
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We have identified peopele in the cartels specialize in cryptocurrency movements a senior DEA official told media.
The new inspector general report raises worries about danger of high tech surveillance to US national safety.
Some within the FBI and sister agencies such as CIA have detailed this danger as existential the report said.
There have been longstanding danger posed by ubiquitous technical surveillance jargon for widespread availability of data to adversaries to FBI criminal and national security cases the report added.
Recent advance in commercial technology have made it easier than ever for less sophisticated nations and criminal businesses to identify and exploit vulnerabiities related to surveillance according to report.
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