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Russia Behind Cyber-attack, Says Ukraine's Security Service (bbc.com)
Ukraine says it has discovered who the perpetrators of last week's destructive ransomware attack are. From a report: Ukraine says it has proof that Russian security services were involved in the cyber-attack that targeted businesses around the world last week. The country's security service, the SBU, said it had obtained data that points to a link with an attack on the nation's capital, Kiev, in December. Ukrainian firms were among the first to report issues with malicious software on Tuesday, before the virus spread. Moscow denied any involvement, adding that the allegations were "unfounded".
The virus, which disrupted IT systems across the globe, froze computers and demanded a ransom be paid in the digital currency Bitcoin, which is untraceable. Further reading: The Petya Ransomware Is Starting To Look Like a Cyberattack in Disguise.
bitcoin transactions are untraceable?
Fuck the USA!
Fuck you, and your shitty country.
1. Wait for something bad to happen. 2. Blame it on Russia. 3. Ask the US for money.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
Last week there was proof it came from North Korea, wasn't there?
for Trump, so also doing this is no surprise. Americans no longer have freewill. Putin controls them.
Putinbots army in 3... 2... 1...
Whatever it was, that Petya thing hit bunch of Russian companies as well. For example, it hit Russia's top oil providers Rosneft and Bashneft. Some of them suffered quite a bit. Invitro, a nationwide network of private medical laboratories, temporarily ceased samples collection due to the cyberattack.
It does bring up an interesting point, though. The attacks on Ukraine do have strong evidence linking them to Russia, if not the Russian government.
At the same time, the US government's report on Russian 'hacking the election' relied heavily on the fact that 'the attacks were similar to how Russia normally operates cyberattacks." And yet, the Ukrainian attacks are quite different than the ones on the DNC.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
That's why attacked our democracy to install his puppet.
Revealing what the anti-democratic Democrats were saying about democracy isn't an attack.
Nor do I believe the claim that that's what got us our Cheeto-in-chief.
Russia Behind Cyber-attack, Says Ukraine's Security Service
I think it's premature to jump to such conclusions since we know that our very own CIA has also been implicated...
Vault 7 and more.
blaming Russia for everything. It's funny how it's been evident how vast the U.S. sabotage of European networks etc. has been the last decade or two from the recent NSA and CIA leaks, but somehow they quickly evaded all the rage.
That, and making Russia the new scapegoat, is succesful propaganda and manipulation of public opinion, and it's all it is.
Also the fact that leaked emails from the Democrats had been edited using a Cyrillic version of MS office and the changes where direct cut and paste from Russian propaganda sites like sputnik...
once more into the breach
Somewhere out on the Internet, in some kinky erotic fetish forum, there currently are some furious political arguments occurring.
I'm not so sure that Donald Trump himself is directly a puppet, I think his strings are being pulled by person(s) in his administration, and that he's just the typical 'great white male' power-hungry jackass with delusions of grandeur that historically gets used. It might even be a cabal within the Republican party itself, conspiring with Russia to steal the election out from under Hillary Clinton -- not that Clinton would have been any better overall than Trump, it would have been just a different flavor of bad and evil. The ugly truth of the matter is, there wasn't a single candidate in the 2016 election that was really truly suitable to run this country (I almost said 'The Greatest Nation on Earth', but we haven't been that since World War 2) so it didn't really matter who got elected or how, 300,000,000 people here (and most of the rest of the free world) end up losing regardless. The only good thing that would have come out of Clinton being elected would have been that it wasn't due to foreign influence and/or hacking of our electoral process.
Even while we're picking up the pieces of the farce that was the 2016 election, and while we're investigating and uncovering the conspiracy and outside influences, and (with any luck, closing the holes that allowed it to happen), then repairing the damage the Trump 'administration' is causing to this country and it's reputation with the rest of the free world (if that's even possible in our lifetime at this point), there's a bigger concern: containing Vladimir Putin and his ambitions of empire. If it's not exceedingly clear to anyone at this point that Putin wants to build a new Russian empire, then you're either not paying attention, or you're in deep denial. The invasion of Crimea was just a proof-of-concept, to see if he would be allowed to get away with it ('achievement unlocked', apparently). The meddling and hacking of the 2016 U.S. election, and other elections in various countries, is helping lay the groundwork for further Russian military actions in the EU, by installing leadership in key NATO countries that will be more sympathetic to Putin and Russia (or just plain more easily manipulated). I'd imagine the next big-ticket item on his to-do list will be to dismantle NATO, or at least weaken it to the point where it's ineffective. Influencing/hacking the BrExit vote helps to destabilize the EU, which in turn will help destabilize NATO. France is another big piece of the puzzle, and it's unclear to me whether or not Macron would ultimately be a help or a hindrance to Russia; I'm leaning towards Macron being a hindrance. The ongoing war in Syria, and the continual stream of refugees from that country, is also a further destabilizing force in EU countries, especially Germany; does anyone actually think that Putin actually likes Assad? Assad is a butcher, plain and simple, waging a war of extermination against his own citizens; even Putin must have to hold his nose when dealing with Assad, and the Syrian conflict and Assad are just more tools for Putin to use. Daesh (so-called 'Islamic State'), for all we know, might even be getting some clandestine support from Putin, just because they've been so good at destabilizing the entire region; even I would lean away from this however because of how over-the-top, savagely, animalistically violent Daesh has been; they have NO friends anywhere. Even Al-Qaeda distanced themselves from them as 'too extreme'. More likely, Putin is using Daesh as an excuse to 'help' Syria, and is playing off the refugee crisis it's causing, as distraction for everything else going on (like the invasion of Crimea, for instance, and continual cyberattacks, which are masquerading as 'cyber crime').
Oh, and one more thing: don't blame most of the people who (actually) voted for Trump; in the parlance of the old Soviet Union, they're just 'useful idiots', whether they knew who and what they were voting for or not. The sad truth is that most U.S. voters really don't have (or can't have) a full enough grasp of the Big Picture to really kn
Are you smoking pot or are you a lsd user? Otherwise what "ms office"? are you seeing in plain text and hashes?
Look, Russia is a failed fossil fuel export state.
The only thing propping them up is the fossil fuels they can export, and a few things like steel.
Cut them off at the root. Replace imported Russian oil and gas with Renewable energy everywhere.
When they cut, double down. When they hack, triple down. When they do both, quadruple investments in solar and wind.
Make them bleed.
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That moron can't be explained by pot of LSD. He's been huffing paint for a decade, easy. Believes every bit of disinformation he's trolled with.
No, you've got it completely backwards, as well as mixing up the various times the Dems go hacked. The Cyrillic characters were from the Guccifer 2.0 leaks, along with a commie hero username or something along those lines.
The Podesta emails were unaltered (and many were DKIM verified), but Sputnik inaccurately reported that an email excerpt from Eichenwald in an email sent by Blumenthal was written by Blumenthal herself, after which they deleted it. Then, American news outlets used that to claim that the emails themselves were altered, because that's way scarier than Russian sites missing a 'by' in an email and reporting sloppily.
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Of course Ukraine would say that. No matter it's true or not. Because that hurts Russia and that what Ukraine wants now
What about the damage that Obama did? You don't seem concerned by that much...
Your true colors shine...
Don't be so negative. Korea was an honourable draw.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Either you want Russia to get the Ukraine or you don't. If you do, anyone BUT Russia did it, no matter what, EVER! #MAGA
Welcome to the dungeon.
The musk of semen lingers. A bunch of men wearing gimp suits sit cross-legged in front of a tube television playing C-SPAN.
A man in a petty coat--he's BUILT! Some sort of bouncer?... for this place?--emerges from the shadows and manhandles you away from the festivities.
"I'll need to see your politicalcompass.org test results first," he commands with stately authority.
The conspiracy is deep with this one.
Pretty string evidence, these hackers are so dumb they have never heard of a proxy.
Is an open holster equivalent to a smoking gun?
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- HST
Considering that I never mentioned Obama at all I don't see where you have a valid point at all, but I do see that you're just wanting to stir shit up for no reason -- or perhaps are a Russia shill, or a Russian operative, astroturfing U.S. discussion forums as per your Fearless Leaders orders. In either case you can bugger off, you've been made and therefore have failed. Now scurry off back to your handlers and make your report like a good boy, and make yourself a new account here now that you'll have to burn this one.
Perhaps, and we certainly get along okay with S. Korea still (even though some of the things they engage in aren't all that nice so far as I'm concerned -- but nothing compared to their cousins to the north) but I'd tend to think that any goodwill we earned up to that point in the region was burned because of Vietnam, and things just kept going downhill from there.
Everything I'm looking at has been in the news, and I'm just connecting the dots. Do try to keep up, AC. I'm far from the only person in the U.S. who is putting these things together, and most of them are really quite obvious.