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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."
This is a funny story to post immediately after another story was posted about false news.
>> 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...
Russian Hackers did shit during practically every day of Obama's presidency.
Conspiracy?!?!?!?!?
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
With a bit of active help they got the president they wanted. Why stop now?
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
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?)
Some more headlines:
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours BEFORE Trump's Win
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks DURING US ELECTION
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks ALL THE FUCKING TIME...
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
They won't notice. Their eyes will be on whatever new devil brietbart manfactures to distract them.
Someone had to do it.
Perhaps a headline rewrite will put things in perspective:
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Clinton's loss
Emphasis mine.
See the difference?
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?
Do you even know who owns the New York Times and not point putting a link, I refuse to obey and log in, screw em.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen