A United States-based digital forensics firm has found that a malware was installed on prison rights' activist Rona Wilson's computer, two years before he was implicated for allegedly plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister and overthrow the government. Investigative authorities arrested several activists and academics based on incriminating letters that they found on Wilson's computers. The activists were allegedly responsible for violence that took place three years in Pune in what has come to known as the Bhima Koreagaon case. The forensic investigation by Massachusetts-based firm Arsenal Consulting found that Wilson's computer was compromised for 22 months, which meant that the attacker had "extensive resources (including time) and it is obvious that their primary goals were surveillance and incriminating document delivery. The malware used by the attacker was deployed over the court of four years to not only attack and compromise Wilson's computer but to attack his c0-deffendants in the Bhima Koregaon case, the report said. Arsenal has not named the attacker. "It should be noted that this is one of the most serious cases involving evidence tampering that Arsenal has ever encountered, based on various metrics which include the vast timespan between the delivery of the first and the last incriminating documents," —Arsenal Consulting. Arsenal's findings was first reported by the Washington Post, and confirms an earlier report by The Caravan magazine in March last year which found that a malware on Wilson's computer had delivered the incriminating documents detailing a plot to overthrow the government. A copy of…
