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FBI Seizes Control of Russian Botnet (thedailybeast.com)
The Daily Beast reports that the FBI has seized control of a key server in the Kremlin's global botnet of 500,000 hacked routers. "The move positions the bureau to build a comprehensive list of victims of the attack, and short-circuits Moscow's ability to reinfect its targets," writes Kevin Poulsen. From the report: The FBI counter-operation goes after "VPN Filter," a piece of sophisticated malware linked to the same Russian hacking group, known as Fancy Bear, that breached the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 election. On Wednesday security researchers at Cisco and Symantec separately provided new details on the malware, which has turned up in 54 countries including the United States.
VPN Filter uses known vulnerabilities to infect home office routers made by Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR, and TP-Link. Once in place, the malware reports back to a command-and-control infrastructure that can install purpose-built plug-ins, according to the researchers. One plug-in lets the hackers eavesdrop on the victim's Internet traffic to steal website credentials; another targets a protocol used in industrial control networks, such as those in the electric grid. A third lets the attacker cripple any or all of the infected devices at will.
VPN Filter uses known vulnerabilities to infect home office routers made by Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR, and TP-Link. Once in place, the malware reports back to a command-and-control infrastructure that can install purpose-built plug-ins, according to the researchers. One plug-in lets the hackers eavesdrop on the victim's Internet traffic to steal website credentials; another targets a protocol used in industrial control networks, such as those in the electric grid. A third lets the attacker cripple any or all of the infected devices at will.
They aren't supposed to be political, period. Instead, they were wiretapping a political candidate under the orders of his opposition. There's no excuse.
The Democratic party still can't get over the simple fact that they lost because they put forward a weak candidate for the most "unamerican" reason possible, "because it was her turn", using dirty political manipulations against her opponents.
Hence the probes by disgruntled democrats who dug in the FBI in the past 8 years.
Sad.
To claim truth without testing in court is to lie. Governments routinely lie, not for the people but against the people. Lie to cover up corruption, lie to cover up incompetence, lie to cover up nepotism, lie, lie and lie some more. Nothing was proven, in fact the only court action so far was against thirteen Russian trolls working at a click bait operation, simply put up content that people will click, taking them to the ad to be served. Of course the reality there, the US banned the people it claimed it wanted to arrest from entering the US, so yeah, right.
It seems much more likely and based upon actual evidence exposed, that it was an inside job and the assassinated the person that did it. Pathetic lies like this coming from /. ohh so lame, like you are going to convince anyone here of anything. So many lies told about Russia, nobody cares any more, the US government can tell all the lies it wants and it is only arrogance that makes them think people are believing them because they don't attack them as much any more. Don't you morons get it, we stopped listening because you always just bullshit, so waffle on what ever crap you want, you just look worse and worse and worse.
NATO North American Territorial Occupation farce. Main purpose force itself on more countries. Privatise their defence industries and have US multinational takes them over. Then demand 2% of GDP as tribute payment buying arms and munitions, you don't need an army, if fact they are a hindrance, you just need to buy the crap as demanded, failure and regime change operation and that is up to an including a coup as witnessed in Turkey a NATO country, hence the need for US military to be in NATO countries, to capture and kill that countries anti-vassal state politicians and political activists.
Look at the suck up nations, Australia voting with the US, that it is A OK to murder unarmed protesters with snipers on purpose and shoot thousands beyond that blowing off limbs on purpose to destroy their lives. So the US drags other countries down into the muck and mire, the blood and gore of their rapacious greed and vileness.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
-Mueller's investigation has been almost entirely without leaks-
You keep saying this over and over. Those shitbags leak like a fucking sieve. They have nothing because there is nothing. So they constantly leak vaporware bullshit that gets picked up by the trump-hating dipshit media and then vanishes like the queef in a hurricane that it always is.
I see that without any sense of irony whenever I go against the reigning russiantroll-climate I'm modded as troll.
Here's a good overview of the DNC hack https://www.thenation.com/arti...