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Russia Says Foreign Spies Plan Cyber Attack On Banking System (reuters.com)
Russia said on Friday it had uncovered a plot by foreign spy agencies to sow chaos in Russia's banking system via a coordinated wave of cyber attacks and fake social media reports about banks going bust. From a report on Reuters: Russia's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), said that the servers to be used in the alleged cyber attack were located in the Netherlands and registered to a Ukrainian web hosting company called BlazingFast. The attack, which was to target major national and provincial banks in several Russian cities, was meant to start on Dec. 5, the FSB said in a statement. "It was planned that the cyber attack would be accompanied by a mass send-out of SMS messages and publications in social media of a provocative nature regarding a crisis in the Russian banking system, bankruptcies and license withdrawals," it said. "The FSB is carrying out the necessary measures to neutralize threats to Russia's economic and information security."
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I pray god that there will be one more bank run. I made quite a lot of money last December, when zerglings stormed banks and currency was traded at 15% spread.
Sounds more like some Russian Trolls got pissed off at smaller budgets/pay and decided to use the EXACT SAME TACTICS against the bosses.
... Hillary Clinton, you ass wipes.
Karma's a bitch.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
This couldn't by any chance be a smokescreen to try to deflect the heat from Russian cyber attacks oversseas, hmm? "Look, see? We're victims too!"
Seeing as the FSB stopped these supposed attacks before they happened, I'm guessing we won't see any meaningful evidence that there ever was a credible plot to begin with.
Bank robs you!
*see also: Wells Fargo
Have been spotted around Moscow with laptops.
The 5th of December is a dutch holiday, where Saint Nicolas gives presents to children. A bit like Father Christmas in the USA. In fact, "Santa Claus" is related to the dutch name for Saint Nicolas, "Sinterklaas".
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
I seem to remember, not too long, some high up Russian official laughing at the idea they would try to interfere with U.S. elections through hacking, or that they were involved with the Wikileaks email, or other related issues in the U.S. I can't remember the exact words but the word "delusional" was definitely in there.
Now, suddenly, Russia is claiming that foreigners are going to supposedly target the Russian banking system and oh yeah, they come from Ukraine.
How odd they should say this. Why would anyone from Ukraine want to hurt their neighbors banking system? As Russia has steadfastly maintained for over two years, they are not attacking Ukraine and no Russian troops are in Ukraine despite the weekly shipments of cargo 200, so why would Ukraine be singled out?
It looks Russia is trying to place blame somewhere else rather than their own incompetence and corruption, not to mention invasion, which is causing their banking sector to forcefully collapse in a manner similar to their ruble which now borders on rubble.
Funny how everyone else is delusional when talking about attacks on their country coming from Russia yet now we're supposed to believe Russia when they single out one particular country for these supposed attacks on their banking sector.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
.. Bank attacks YOU!
In fact please wipe out all bank loan records and records of liens. The american banking system needs to crater into ashes because it's only a tiny step above organized crime.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
People OUTSIDE Russia hacking Russia.
Russia's name is Earl. Karma's bitch.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I love how Russians complain about the exact same things they do - they've systematically annexed parts of bordering countries, then complain that said countries start strengthening their NATO ties/ambitions or engage in military exercises. They go and block Wikipedia then allege the US suppresses free speech. 70% people live in abysmal conditions and poverty and all Pukin does is brag every year about how well the country has done yet again, and how democratic the elections are, when it's been the same fucking guy for the last 20 years.
I have one thing to say - let Russia get hacked to shit.
Stop using Windows on ALL ATM terminals, and other systems!
Cunt.
solved.
Well done, commies!
I find your argument far more eloquent and persuasive that I had expected you to be capable of.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
In Russia? You might just as well try to make water more wet.
The West has to get its hits in now before Trump comes to office and rewards the Russians for their help during the election.
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The game that publicly started with Black Energy, continues with Banking in Red. Assuming the players are what they are claimed to be. It might as well be a Russian investor wanting to short sell the banks.
Start World War 3... you're being rediculous.
Your post is blatantly flamebait doing nothing but putting idiotic words into the mouths of the Left that none of them are actually saying.
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Commie basterds.
This is some low effort, low quality trolling. You should feel ashamed.
OK, I agree to avoid the low effort trolling in the future if liberals agree to stop making it so easy.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
And yet some how it manages to be more eloquent than yours.
The above just condensed your post down to it's one word base meaning.
Name calling.
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Good. /grumpycat
Your wife sucks good cock, but not as good as your daughter.
O.K. I do understand that this will reveal my primary school education was not from the public school system and I don't really want to seem elitist by demonstrating my obvious superiority over you. but "name calling" is not one word, it is two.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Once again the eloquent liberal argument has put me in my place. And has shown all of us your place as well.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
and the above post, the topic of the conversation, was one word.
Kind of a cut rate private school your parents sent you to there given that you werent able to infer that was the point.
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Obama and his Oligarchy buddies.
It's the same as having a good offense and a bad defense - like the old Oakland Raiders used to have
Thank you for making it clear that it is my fault that your post was so ambiguous.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
You are bitter. Why?
If you're not a bitter person, why are you writing like one?
It's a shame that you used the time to write your post the way you did, when you could've done something to better the world instead.
I'm using this time to better the world. I'm writing a post that might make you take a moment of introspection. Maybe you'll realize what kind of a person you seem to be.
I was under the impression that the Russian banking system was already in a state of chaos. International banks are fleeing the country, and anyone with any appreciable assets has them stashed in Switzerland.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Well one might think they would know what they were and were not doing. I note you don't address the fact that we never had anything approaching actual proof of Russian involvement ... oh and the claims that the Wikileaks emails were "modified" was also proven false via DKIM. One might also think that perhaps if they're being hacked, they would have info on who did it. It's funny you mention the Ukraine, because the spear phishing email that got Podesta claimed to originate from there. We also have a 60 minutes segment where he talks about destabilizing countries. No wonder he runs MoveOn.
But sure, go ahead and keep agitating for yet another proxy war. I mean the one the US waged with Afghanistan worked out ever so well for both countries, right? We didn't just end up turning the area into a hellhole full of people who would be happy to kill us or Russians, right?
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Russia has lied to us plenty, just as the US government has. I'm just not a fan of people like you who want to stir up more proxy wars or this sort of non-sequitur schadenfreude you're spewing. If you're going to complain about alleged Russian trolls, don't ignore that we have the same in the USA and that the USA legalized propaganda ops against ourselves. Not to mention groups like CTR... How do we know you're not among them?
Hey no problem, let me know if you need any help reading in the future,
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Russia said on Friday it had uncovered a way to launch a war against the Netherlands and continue the one in the Ukraine by telling everyone that there was some mysterious plot against Russian banks. Nobody really believed them on Friday but because they used the magic words "hackers" and "banks" the international community gave them a pass. The U.S. used a similar tactic a decade ago when it launched an attack on Iraq using the magic words "weapons of mass destruction" and "Muslim extremists."
The U.S. president-elect could not be reached for comment because he was in court denying he sexually assaulted several women.
The current U.S. president could not be reached because he thought this was about the Dakota Access Pipeline and refused to take the call.
Russian president Putin had this to say,"Clearly the U.S. can no longer police the world as they have because their police are too busy shooting black people who run away from them. I look forward to finally completing my annexation of the Ukraine and moving on to the conquering of the Netherlands as my next steps toward world domination."
This means that the Russian banking system is about to crash, and Putin needs to get his cover story "hackers did it" out there better than Hillary did.
-Styopa
Moron.