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Leaked Chats Show Alleged Russian Spy Seeking Hacking Tools (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: The leak of an alleged Russian hacker's conversations with a security researcher shows more about the shadowy group of 12 Russian spies indicted by the FBI for targeting the 2016 U.S. election. The researcher, who gave her exchanges with the alleged hacker to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said she wasn't pleased to learn she had been corresponding with an alleged Russian spy. But she wasn't particularly surprised either.
Since when does a state-sponsored spy need to troll a researcher for hacking tools? This exchange is pretty strong evidence that the person is not a sanctioned "spy".
prove me wrong....
Every time a story like this comes up, a large number of folks raise objections to the very idea of investigating right-wing election issues.
Well, this isn't going away. Benghazi investigations lasted for 3 years, with zero convictions or even serious cases. If you in any way accepted that process, you have ZERO legs to stand against on an investigation that had already lead to multiple convictions and guilty pleas, and is currently involved in a large number of major court cases, increasing constantly.
And if push too hard to try and force it to stop, the protests will shut down this nation. They will be larger than anything we've ever seen.
None of this is going away.
Ryan Fenton
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What I find hardest to believe is how /. is still pushing this nonsensical 'Russia' narrative so long after it has become apparent that there's nothing to it. It was almost 2 years ago that President Trump won the election honestly and fairly, yet msmash is still going on about this conspiracy theory concocted by the far left. Will we have to see stupid submissions like this wasting front page space for the rest of President Trump's current term, and the rest of his next term after he also wins the next election honestly and fairly?
Is anyone surprised?
The thing is, "Russian spy tries to spy" != "Trump is a Russian mole/dupe/partner/something, OMG lolz". Which is the implication we are apparently supposed to believe.
Just like the hot 18/f/CA that used to hang out in all of those AOL chatrooms I'm willing to bet that it's a big fat hairy dude sitting behind a desk somewhere in Langley Virginia.
Agreed. I frequent this site less and less due to the political leanings.
fucking cyber man!!! it's the cyber I tell you!
The CIA's agents are always spies at all the world.
Thanks for the clarification, msmash.
recently disclosed vulnerability codenamed CVE-2012-0002. Not a code name, article is invalid.
Because the NSA never taps the expertise of researchers outside of their own walls? That is preposterous.
Exploits are like any other commodity. You go to the people who have them, regardless of who they are.
Ever since 9/11 the country needed a new boogeyman to be scared of. We had the Taliban, then Saddam, then pedophiles, then ISIS, now it happens to be Russia. Trump used social media to get elected just like Obama did and now shit got real because the DNC gambled on Hillary and lost. I'm not a Democrat but I respect Bernie a hell of a lot more than Hillary.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Blame the Russians, because they know nothing will ever come of it.. Just a BS story to ignite their brainless base.
Where is the story here? Water is wet, just so you know.
The examples we are continually given of "russian meddling" are laughable. First, no serious person is suggesting a single vote was changed or hacked. Second, like the parent post suggested.....the Russians are much better at spycraft and influence than the ridiculous examples we see.
A 12-man team of russians peddling facebook memes and stirring the pot isn't enough to shake the foundations of the republic. There is only one group pushing that narrative -- people who want Donald Trump out of office by any means necessary.
Your list of things the Russians bought is too short. Looking at your country from afar, they also appear to have bought your President.
If Trump is impeached, Mike Pence will become POTUS. The man is a crazy Christian (capital punishment for abortion, anyone?), and he might have the skills necessary to be effective. Trump's lack of political skill is the best thing about him.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- HST
This person contacted her over a 'blog post' and posted to Twitter to find information on a CVE.
That is a script-kiddie, wannabe hacker teenager. A true spy, hell, even a halfway decent 'professional' knows where to find CVE descriptions and based on those descriptions, they can write their own exploits.
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Plus, Russia didn't meddle, and if they did, it wasn't to help Trump, and if it was, it didn't work, but either way there was no collusion and collusion isn't a crime anyway.
The US seems fixated with the GRU in all the stories about spying globally.
The GRU did try to spy once in the UK and totally lost a well placed spy in the 1070's.
After that it was better felt to let the real spy experts in the Soviet Union and Russia look after international spying.
Now the West is to enjoy a story about the GRU that is back doing advanced cyber spying but it cant spy and needs help. When it can spy it got deep into US networks and was never found due to skills. Then went back to needing random help again in chats again?
Stories about been able to stay deep in US networks extracting vast amounts of data with amazing skills using advanced code? Then going back to needing help in chat online?
Spying that has a person no skills in chat and then super skills all over the "internet"?
With the "a military base in the heart of Moscow" with "manicured lawns, flower beds"? And "a district outside Moscow"? "Cross-country skiing"? "emerald waters"? Left around as a story to find?
The US media then getting told of US investigative methods in real time? The US media talking US results in real time?
When did the USA ever let any of its real investigative methods and real results get talked about? 30 to 60 years later.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Even Russian spies use social media. TFA shows how to track them down:
The AP has also uncovered several social media profiles tied to another of Yermakov's indicted colleagues — Lt. Aleksey Lukashev, allegedly the man behind the successful phishing of the email account belonging to Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.
Lukashev operated a Twitter account under the alias "Den Katenberg," according to an analysis of the indictment as well as data supplied by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks and Twitter's "Find My Friends" feature.
A tipster using the Russian facial recognition search engine FindFace recently pointed the AP to a VKontatke account that, while using a different name, appears active and features photos of the same young, Slavic-looking man.
Many of his posts and his friends appear to originate from a district outside Moscow known as Voskresensky. The photos show him cross-country skiing at night, wading in emerald waters somewhere warm and visiting Yaroslavl, an ancient city northwest of Moscow. One video appeared to show Russia's 2017 Spasskaya Tower Festival, a military music festival popular with officers.
The AP could not establish with certainty that the man on the VKontatke account is Lukashev. Several people listed as friends either declined to comment when approached by the AP or said Lukashev's name was unknown to them.
Shortly thereafter, the profile's owner locked down his account, making his vacation snaps invisible to outsiders.