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Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump's Win (vice.com)
Hours after Donald Trump won the Presidential Election, a group of hackers that is widely believed to be Russian and was involved in the breach of the Democratic National Committee launched a wave of attacks against dozens of people working at universities, think tanks, NGOs, and even inside the US government. From a report on Motherboard:Around 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the hackers sent a series of phishing emails trying to trick dozens of victims into opening booby-trapped attachments containing malware, and clicking on malicious links, according to security firm Volexity, which observed and reported the five attack waves. The targets work for organizations such as Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, the Atlantic Council, the RAND Corporation, and the State Department, among others. One of the phishing emails included a forwarded message appearing to be from the Clinton Foundation, apparently sent by a professor at Harvard. The email used the professor's real address, and according to Volexity's founder Steven Adair, it's likely that the professor got hacked and the attackers then used his account to send out the phishing emails. (The professor did not respond to a request for comment.) One of the targets, who shared the email she received with Motherboard, said she "almost fell for it."
They took off Election day so they wouldn't taint the results. Good for them!
No matter where you go, there you are.
This is a funny story to post immediately after another story was posted about false news.
Getting Trump into the White House was just the beginning.
>> the hackers sent a series of phishing emails trying to trick dozens of victims into opening booby-trapped attachments containing malware, and clicking on malicious links
So...phishing is news now? Zzzzzzz...
I got an ad, all in russian, and with a link to some shady looking russian website, for a shoe shine kit spammed to one of my obscure postings on youtube, and then promptly removed.
Assumed at the time it was some kind of Russian trolls playing a joke.
Now I think so even more.
Russian Hackers did shit during practically every day of Obama's presidency.
Conspiracy?!?!?!?!?
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Hackers sent out phishing attempts. How is this news? What next? The sun rose?
Yeah, right.
Putin called Trump immediately after the official announcement to congratulate him on his election victory.
Trump has stated that he plans to mend the relationship with Russia. People in Russia are relieved because
Hillary was threatening to put into place a "no fly zone" in Syria when Russia ALREADY has a no fly zone BY INVITATION
from the democratically elected Syrian Government.
Trump also would like to ramp down NATO, which BTW, at this time has Russia encircled with missile "defense" systems pointed at
Russia.
So this story makes ZERO sense... unless it is intended to sway sentiment against Russia...
With a bit of active help they got the president they wanted. Why stop now?
Now we can move on.
After all they did to help him, he must be very proud of them.
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Anyone with a passing familiarity with malware knows that such spear-phishing scams may be /anyone/ /anywhere/.
So they're Russian, you say? (picture of Putin glowering at the top of the article) How come you're so /certain/ it's the Russian government and not, you know, the Russian Mob (Russian Business Network and affiliates) or someone in the RBN pretending to be FSB or any combination of Russian speaking expatriates or even the CIA posing as FSB or RBN or something much more mundane?
>undetectable
>detected
>passed by the filters
BECAUSE ANYONE WITH ANY SENSE IN HIS HEAD WHO IS WRITING MALWARE HAS ALL THESE FILTERS THEMSELVES TO MAKE SURE THEY PASS BEFORE RELEASING INTO THE WILD.
This has been standard operations for malware for the past, oh, nearly 20 years. Because the filters are only as good as the latest definitions and anything not in the definitions is going to skate right on by. THIS IS NOT NEW.
I'm treating these nearly fact-free vague news stories like this as pure propaganda, because that's what they are. Like our top-secret-hush-hush "CLANDESTINE" retaliations at the putative "russians" /announced/ on NBC News (fucking really?).
This fucking forced march into a new Cold War is fucking stupid. The clowns that have been pushing for it since the collapse of the Soviet Union need to be imprisoned at the very least.
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BMO
And then DRAIN THE SWAMP! LOCK HER UP!
Or just commend her and continue as normal. Or whatever. You won so it doesn't matter anymore.
... clearly a conspiracy!
The US is DDOSing, not the russians :
http://americanintelligencerep...
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10's of millions of turkeys are cooked and eaten just hours after Trump is elected!!! Proof of the end of times brought about by the election!!!
(Ok, so it is more like 384 hours, and this has nothing to do with Trump, but the two have to be related somehow right? Or could it just be that hackers do what hackers do?)
or shut the f-ck up. The Russian hacker boogey-man bullshit is getting tiresome, and nobody believes it anymore. Anyone can compromise machines anywhere in the world and launch attacks from them, and the only ones who have been proven to do so are the NSA, so this is more likely some bullshit propaganda scare again. Show us the irrefutable proof that Russian state-sponsored hackers are attacking U.S. systems, or stop posting crap like this.
My stock in RJ Reynolds is going through the roof.
Strike when the Enemy is confused or off-balance. Post-election depression makes the target more emotional, more vulnerable to phishing.
... to give to WikiLeaks to help their buddy when he gets into the White House in January.
Sorry, RUSSIAN SQUIRREL!!!! didn't work.
Crooked Liar Hillary! went DOWN!
Bwaaaa-hah-haaaa!
90% of slashdot's content comes from Vice Motherboard now. Not even a 'news' source.
They won't notice. Their eyes will be on whatever new devil brietbart manfactures to distract them.
Someone had to do it.
Yay for one party rule!!
Perhaps a headline rewrite will put things in perspective:
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Clinton's loss
Emphasis mine.
See the difference?
Of course! Just hold my beer so I can use both hands.
There's Russians under my bed!
I wouldn't mind being caught in a booby trap! Where's the boobies?
I'm getting rather tired of the one sidedness of these state sponsored Russian hackers. With all the clout they have cannot the NSA/CIA get back at the fucking Russians in some way? Perhaps by stealing the financial records of Vlad Putin and his creatures from whatever tax havens they hide them in and exposing the full extent and rotten nature of the Russian Kleptocracy?
The attack was launched against DOZENS of people.
Only one person "Almost fell for it".
Russian Hackers: Give up.
US was going to be to prickly to attack during the election and this could wait.
> The email used the professor's real address, and according to Volexity's founder Steven Adair, it's likely that the professor got hacked and the attackers then used his account to send out the phishing emails.
You don't need to access the account to include a SUBJECT header. Whoever wrote that article has no idea about how SMTP works.
Who would they vote for?
Fucking Establishment Media is still trying to start another cold war...
Sorry bitches but the current administration isn't going to push your shitty pseudoliberal corny agenda.
So is it the Russians who are behind the massive protests in major cities and college campii against the election results? Results that they are supposed to have wanted?
I don't know. can europeans think independently of their hive mind?
See subject: Minus an enemy, real or imagined, the Military Industrial Complex has no job man & thus no money is made for them...
* War is extremely profitable for a select few...
APK
P.S.=> The answer to 99/100 things that seem blatantly wrong to do, is always "the HoLy DoLLaR" - it's disgusting & sad... apk
nah we'd just get the hydra to cut off one of its own heads..
What's with all the false news, hand-wringing bullshit "from Motherboard" on here?
I don't know. can europeans think independently of their hive mind?
Yes, but once they start thinking independently, they leave Europe.
It might seem like that, when a child look at grown ups.
All the victims were running WINDOWS! Ooohhh.
Why do slashdot editors fall for this crap?
When all those protests were in non-western countries, the US fell over itself providing funds and arms for "rebel" groups and insurrections.
$5B in Ukraine and a LOT of weapons for Libya and Syria !
Like any good Criminal, they study Human Nature and know it inside out.
The Election was late-breaking news and people were hungry for tidbits of information. That means many (not all, of course) normally wary and aware recipients of the eMail would have fallen for it, despite probably knowing better the other 364 days of the year.
The results may have played a role in the uptake, but it would have worked regardless of who won, as long as it was reasonably close, and that would include the state results only in some races, regardless of the Presidential race.
Just good planning by the hackers. In retrospect's perfect 20:20 vision, it's obvious but on Election Day, maybe not so much.
Hopefully it won't be forgotten, although the odds in my opinion are against it, but next time around maybe these organizations should warn their staff a day or three before the first Tuesday in November. It's a near perfect "setup", as the crime movies would say.
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It seems Dems, govt, and others victims of cyberattacks. I haven't seen mentions of such on the Republicans or some emails from Trump. Maybe RNC doesn't use internet as much as the DNC? Or no dirt on Trump to release because he openly says what he thinks anyway? Just wondering.
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