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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."
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!
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
>> I still have no idea what you're trying to say
:)
The Democrats didn't worry about the Russians until...they needed a distraction in the 2016 election. And for some reason, they're still whining about them instead of cleaning up their own party.
Alternatively, Democrats should perhaps learn the most important lesson of ethics and morality: if you don't want the world to know about your shady shit...don't do shady shit.
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.
At least that trick is not going to inflict damages on civilians, and it may even reduce them.
Yes it does.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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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