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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.
1. Wait for something bad to happen. 2. Blame it on Russia. 3. Ask the US for money.
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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.
Anyone who says Bitcoin is "untraceable" is an idiot, it's in a Public Ledger, that's how it bloody well works. It would be more accurate to say it's anonymous.
No, that was the original WannaCry outbreak. Petya is a repurposed version that exploits the same unpatched vulnerability. It first turned up in Ukraine though, IIRC, an update infected accounting software.
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So, how did Russia infiltrate the Clinton campaign and make them adopt the 'Pied Piper" strategy? is Clinton herself a Russian mole?
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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
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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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No, they invaded Russia.
Others invaded Afghanistan.
Neither is a wise choice. Said as some fellow soldiers I knew died in Afghanistan while the US bugged out to Iraq.
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Not only that, but the infected Ukrainian software MeDoc, was one of only 2 accounting packages which could be used by companies there. The other, made by the Russian company 1C, was banned by the Ukrainian government in May as part of sanctions against Russia for their invasion of Crimea.
If a dog has a history of being aggressive and biting, do you forget about it a minute later and let it bite you again? Russia/Putin has already taken aggressive military action in one case, and is being revealed as taking 'virtual' actions in other cases, and more are suspected. How many times do you need to get bitten before you stop trusting the dog?