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Russians Used Malware On Android Devices To Track and Target Ukraine Artillery, Says Report (reuters.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from Reuters: A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday. The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices, intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against the artillery in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine, the report from cyber security firm CrowdStrike found. The hacking group, known commonly as Fancy Bear or APT 28, is believed by U.S. intelligence officials to work primarily on behalf of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency. The implant leveraged a legitimate Android application developed by a Ukrainian artillery officer to process targeting data more quickly, CrowdStrike said. Its deployment "extends Russian cyber capabilities to the front lines of the battlefield," the report said, and "could have facilitated anticipatory awareness of Ukrainian artillery force troop movement, thus providing Russian forces with useful strategic planning information."
With civilians! Way. To. Go!
I don't worry about the Russians because my president and my favorite presidential candidate told us that worrying about them was foolish.
"The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War's been over for 20 years." - (President) Obama
"It's somewhat dated to be looking backwards." - (Presidential Candidate) Clinton
Also, my president is friends with the Russians and working to advance their interests in his last term. Why would they want to harm us?
"This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility." - Obama
"I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir." - (Russian President) Medvedev
Guys... we're going to need more tinfoil.
Ya, speaking of spreading rumors, you would know wouldn't you anon. Maybe she burned them on the deal, Putin hates Hillary, he has done nothing to hide that.
Damn Hillary was in charge of 9 different government agencies? Wait no you are spreading fake news.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/10/26/the-facts-behind-trumps-repeated-claim-about-hillary-clintons-role-in-the-russian-uranium-deal/
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/sep/30/donald-trump/nuclear-claim-donald-trump-says-hillary-clinton-ga/
The State Department was one of nine agencies comprising CFIUS, which vets potential national security impacts of transactions where a foreign government gains control of a U.S. company. It was established by Congress in 2007 after the controversy over the planned purchase of seaports by a company in United Arab Emirates. The other agencies were the departments of Treasury, Defense, Justice, Commerce, Energy and Homeland Security, and two White House agencies (Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and Office of Science and Technology Policy).
I hope that the US is not stupid enough to use consumer vetted software and hardware for mission critical applications. You would think that the military in the Ukraine would be a little more savvy and lock stuff down but I guess it just goes to show how ridiculous using systems that are not meant to be secure really is. Then again one could create all sorts of easy hack honey pot decoy devices and use them to spread disinformation just as easily. So Microsoft has its place in the armed forces I guess.
A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election
The only thing that's high are the idiots who keep pushing this bullshit. The democrats lost because they suck. Get over it! Let's hope they lose even more in '18. Fuck them, and you morons who keep printing this crybaby stuff. Suck it up, bitches!
TFA (I know, I shouldn't) doesn't say anything at all about what application the Ukrainians were using.
They could have been using the phones to post "Hai mom, here's my kannernz LOLeleventyone" on basefuck.
Hang on, it does. Disregard that, I suck cocks.
If Russia isn't invading and attacking Ukraine, as Putin has been saying for over two years now, why would Russian artillery be targeting Ukrainian artillery in Ukraine?
I guess when you've lost over 2,000 soldiers during your invasion, and the weekly shipments of cargo 200 keep crossing into your country, it becomes time to drop the facade of the charade and just admit the truth you've been denying.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In 1773, the Russians hacked the mail ships and inserted the message that there was to be a Tea Tax.
The American revolution was an error!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
Why would the Russians, who are close allies with Hillary since she sold them a chunk (20%) of the US uranium deposits for a simple donation to the Clinton Foundation
The State Dept. was one of nine agencies who reviewed the deal. And Clinton wasn't even the State Department person who sat on the committee who reviewed it.
And the biggest donor didn't even have a financial stake in the company in question at the time he donated to the Clinton Foundation.
and the fake news sites (CNN, etc) are so relentless on spreading this rumor without any evidence.
Yes imagine, someone spreading rumours of corruption without evidence.
I stole this Sig
to pump out a totally cloud-based artillery targeting app for your smartwatch that sends your exact coordinates in a GET request to jquery.com.
Yeesh.
When I was in the NSA museum, they had a little placard in their Enigma exhibit that said that the US and British kept the details of Turing's work classified well into the 60's because a lot of countries were still using Enigma. For some reason I thought of that now.
This is why the bring-your-own commercial device idea doesn't work for many Defense and Government activities. I realize it sounds really cool to be able to direct artillery fire with your smartphone. But think about all the buggy applications you have on your smartphone... do you really want to be sending fires data with something that's just going to crash or hang because Candy Crush installed wrong?
Some other posters seem to be trying to connect this to Hillary Clinton's recent campaign. Really, the easy link it to compare it with Hillary's private e-mail server. Aside from the whole "don't circumvent the FOIA" thing, this is another why we don't want you doing public business on private servers. Government data is going to be attacked by government operators, if only to see what they can get away with. So it needs to be known so we can give it the government-level defense that it needs.
The artillery wasn't even the worst of it. The malware actually sent all searches to Yahoo.
Today, President Elect Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both announced that they plan to expand their nuclear arsenals. Of course, Trump made his announcement on Twitter.
Duck and cover, motherfuckers.
https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y
You are welcome on my lawn.
And imagine someone downvoting your informative post. No, wait -- no imagination is necessary, some crank already did exactly that.
Why would anyone allow soldiers in his command to use cell phones in an active war zone? That seems daft.
We have to call it what it is: "Russian Cyber Espionage". This is "Russian cyber espionage" and Trump won't even mention the word, and nor will Rex Tillerson. He won't use the term ‘Russian cyber espionage,’ Now, to solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name. Trump won't say the name and Tillerson won't say the name. But the name is there. It's "Russian cyber espionage."
Someone had to do it.
Maybe your claim that Hillary and the Russians are in cahoots is bullshit?
Just saying.
Nah, better go listen to some more Alex Jones. It's probably about the Hollow Earth and keeping Vril from the masses, that's it!
At least that trick is not going to inflict damages on civilians, and it may even reduce them.
Trump is not my President, he's not the choice of the American people, he's Putin's choice.
Using the WaPo as a source just doesn't add any credibility to your argument.
At least Trump will say "Islamic Terrorism" when he needs to, and that's why I ended up voting for him. Russian hackers are a trivial threat compared to the rapidly spreading cancer known as radical Islam.
I'd rather have Trump say fucking Islamic Terrorism that murders people... than to be a puffy pussy like you and shit bricks about someone revealing traitor Hillary and her dirty emails. Fuck you.
Yes it does.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
The United States used malware to sabotage Iranian centrifuges.
Oh, that's right -- it's only wrong when *they* do it.
Evidence or STFU and GTFO.
"A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units..."
If you RTFA, it is full of "linked to"s, "likely"'s, "support"s, "believed to be"s, etc.
Put up or shut up -- provide evidence or forever hold your peace.
Trump won't call Russian Cyber Espionage what it is because he says it's a vain attempt to discredit his presidency. Kind of like the Birthers, Mr. Trump? But that's for another day.
No, the reason behind the reason, is that Trump is simply mad about the Putin! Trump has Putin on his tableware, on his drapes, on his bedspread. I believe that Trump has Putin printed on his underwear. Trump wants to be pals with Putin so bad, he's about to jump on the sofa. After all, Putin is HHhhuuuuggggeee, right?
If Putin were to give Trump a framed picture of himself (Putin), Trump's heart would go pitter-patter! Nothing weird, not like those topless pictures of Putin doing manly Russian things. No, just something tasteful, with a hint of a Putin smile. A formal print would be best, though informal could work too.
And it's not weird at all. No siree!
Leonid Bershidsky says it doesn't make sense that Ukranian soldiers would download the software from some internet forum when they normally get it from the developer, and that they likely never used the infected version. He also says it doesn't follow that the GRU is even responsible for the infected version.
South Korean Army does have the official and encrypted communication device, but since it's a large device, almost all troops and officers use smartphones even near the DMZ/near North Korea.
In fairness, Trump hasn't learned what the term "cyber" means. I hardly think you can then fault him for failing to use it in phrase.
and a fucking pathetic one at that. It's even more fucking pathetic that this got modded insightful and shows how fucking bad /. has gotten.
Maybe read some news sometimes. Both the FBI and CIA say it was fucking Russians. What do they have to gain by saying that but animosity from the president-elect? FFS.
Despite all the bravado the idea of a war in Ukraine for whatever reason seems to be unpopular in Russia and around the World.
Maintaining pretense of non-involvement is good for his domestic agenda and for the agitprop abroad, offering an exit road and to dupe the gullible westerners into lifting sanctions (imposed by the evil Obama and Merkel) and avoid responsibility.
So, despite everything, he will just keep on lying, about his war in Ukraine, about sectarian-ethnic cleansing facilitated by Russian military in Syria, and about pretty much everything else.
It doesn't matter how many agencies or individuals were vetting that decision. What matters is which agency was the principal one in giving the decision the legal go-ahead. State department makes those decisions about exporting arms to foreign nations. Other agencies could have been consulted, but the State Department had to make the call. So it's still on Hillary.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
and the fake news sites (CNN, etc) are so relentless on spreading this rumor without any evidence.
Yes imagine, someone spreading rumours of corruption without evidence.
So you agree that CNN spreads rumors without evidence?
Radical Islam have been around for so long that the pattern is very clear. They grow and implode on themselves, over and over again.
Well. Last time it took 1200 years, with good part of Europe ending up in quite bad shape.
Take a look here (ignore what guy is saying, he might be biased, focus on the map, which is based on facts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I think that better statement is that Islam was continously expanding in aggresive manner since its founding, but got a hicckup in last 200 years, where it has stopped, lost most of its power and had to regrow. I'm not really looking forward for another 1200 years of fighting...
Sorry, but once you oust a democratically elected government, you destroy your democracy. All they had to do was wait 1 year and settle their issues in a legitimate election. They would've still had Crimea, east Ukraine, and a functioning country. Nope! Western Ukrainians instead, acting on advise of Nuland, McCain, and Obama, these poosicles had abandoned democracy and installed their chocolate king puppet. Now they got nothing.
Want a shoulder to cry on? This American ain't got one for you. Fuck off.
So last night the media was trying to link the Ukrainian army android hack to the DNC hack. On MSNBC they went as far as saying the same program was used to hack the DNC server. I want to know what version of android the DNC was running their server on ? :) I'm thinking the media is totally clueless about anything that doesn't have an apple on the back of it.
The same WaPo that sent their articles to Hillary's campaign before printing them, just in case they were saying something Hillary might not want said?
How does that add credibility? Oh, you probably didn't know about that because CNN told you reading WikiLeaks was illegal for US citizens and that they would report what you should know about them and they failed to report that bit. Of course that is the same CNN that was feeding Hillary debate questions before the debates as well.
I don't think you realize how badly Hillary and the DNC destroyed mainstream news media.
No piece of writing that cites Igor Sutyagin's "data" as a reference deserves serious attention.
After hearing reports from the 17 intelligence agencies state that Podesta's hack was done by Guccifer 2.0, you have this fairly unknown group say it was APT 28, then Fancy Bear, and then Honey Bear. I am curious if this Crowdstrike organization, and these supposed 17 intelligence agencies, are ever going to get their narrative correct. Within the wikileaks, you can see John Podesta's email. You can see that he used the web app to access his email through the email source in which his emails show coming directly from google (using the web app) which would have been under very strong encryption and the emails would have never physically been on his computer unless he downloaded an archive. This makes this Russian hack narrative quite false. In fact you can see the link that infected his computer in the phishing scam. Bit.ly. If you do some investigation, the server is a reverse proxy, email, and http server that is still active and sits on the fifth floor of a New York address. If you google earth the building, there is a Verizon shop as well as a few stores, but no signage pointing to this reverse proxy service and it is pretty abstract in its location. The only thing Russian in this whole scenario is that the reverse proxy, email, and http server in New York runs nginx, which is downloadable, opensource Russian software. Anyone could download it and use it. If they continue to push this narrative, they are going to have to provide some pretty strong details on how this all happened, because the media, the intelligence community, and Crowdstrike, are muddling this narrative up so bad that it isn't worth a pile of shit.
If you believe that, then you are either a shill, a fool, or both.
Nice press release but if you broke down the package why cant you release the source for all us simple people to look at? Until we get the source this is nothing more than flame and badly done flame at that.
After the Iraq fiasco I don't believe my own government let alone some "hacking group" composed of who the hell know who to tell me something did or didn't happen. I want hard physical evidence or STFU.
No wonder they are snooped on their position. All it takes is one Stingray in vicinity and... Just ask any tech person about their opinion about using public telecom lines to conduct military business and they will answer you with something like "dancing during darkness with flashing lights attached to their heads." But then, their "president" Chaim Waltzman/Poroshenko bragged about having the best army in the world and offering a helping hand to their western counterparts :-DDDD Probably to commit an act of self-molestation :-))))
Also, although some news stories are casting the Uranium One deal as a national security issue, it really isn't. The Canadian assets were the meat of the deal, and the part ownership in a US uranium processing facility and some mining claims don't amount to much.
Regarding the DNC email release, which Assange states should not be called a "hack" because that is not necessarily the way the leaking party obtained the emails, it doesn't matter who provided them. Who wrote them and their content are what is important,
I, personally, believe Seth Rich was the leaker. https://heatst.com/tech/wikile...
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Sorry, but once you oust a democratically elected government, you destroy your democracy..
Yanukovych tried to destroy Ukraine's democracy by passing his Dictatorship Laws, written with the help of Putin and Surkov, modeled on legislation that existed in Terrorussia. Ukrainians saved their democracy (i.e. prevented the country from turning into a Putinist autocracy) through popular revolution. As far as democracy goes, Ukraine ranks extremely favorably compared to other post-Soviet countries, with the exception of the Baltics. Your Russia, on the other hand, is less democratic than Zimbabwe or Venezuela.
All they had to do was wait 1 year and settle their issues in a legitimate election.
As usual, you Russians are far too stupid to understand that in that one year, Yanukovych would've dismantled what was left of Ukraine's army, filled Ukraine's security services to the brim with Russian agents, stolen everything that wasn't nailed down, and ensured that he or some proxy would win the next presidential election.
They would've still had Crimea, east Ukraine, and a functioning country
The country still functions, and it is finally in the process of getting rid of the last vestiges of Russian influence, which is why dumb animals such as yourself are throwing such a fit. In spite of the war, GDP grew by 2 percent, compared to the same quarter last year; Russia is still in recession, in spite of its natural resources. The world still recognizes Crimea as Ukrainian, and it will be returned in due time (especially since Russia has obliterated Crimea's tourism-based economy) The only thing that the savage Russians had to do to avoid sanctions, avoid turning their country into an international pariah, and avoid recession, was not attack their neighbors. But that was too much to ask.
Chaim Waltzman/Poroshenko
To anyone that doesn't know what this Russian poster is talking about - Russians, being notoriously anti-Semitic, promote the conspiracy theory that Ukraine's President Poroshenko is Jewish, and that his real name is Waltzman. Since antisemitism and Nazism is so prevalent in Russia, Russians consider this to be a smear.
LOL? You think Islamic terrorism is fucking funny? You're trash of the worst sort.