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Russia Is Behind Cyberattack On Saudi Petrochemical Plant, Researchers Say (zdnet.com)
U.S. researchers from FireEye have linked a Russian research lab to a cyberattack on a Saudi petrochemical plant. The malware strain called Triton -- or Trisis -- "was designed to either shut down a production process or allow SIS-controlled machinery to work in an unsafe state," reports ZDNet, citing technical reports from FireEye, Dragos, and Symantec. From the report: The group behind the malware, which FireEye has been tracking under the codename of TEMP.Veles, nearly succeeded last year, when it almost caused an explosion at a Saudi petrochemical plant owned by Tasnee, a privately owned Saudi company, according to a New York Times report. The malware's origins were a mystery when FireEye first discovered Triton in 2017 and remained a mystery even after the New York Times report in March 2018.
But in a report published today, FireEye says that following further research into incidents where the Triton malware was deployed, it can now assess with "high confidence" that the Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (CNIIHM), a government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow, was involved in these attacks. FireEye's report does not link the Triton malware itself to CNIIHM, but the secondary malware strains used by TEMP.Veles and deployed during the incidents where Triton was deployed. Clues in these secondary malware strains used to aid the deployment of the main Triton payloads contained enough artifacts that allowed researchers to identify their source.
But in a report published today, FireEye says that following further research into incidents where the Triton malware was deployed, it can now assess with "high confidence" that the Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (CNIIHM), a government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow, was involved in these attacks. FireEye's report does not link the Triton malware itself to CNIIHM, but the secondary malware strains used by TEMP.Veles and deployed during the incidents where Triton was deployed. Clues in these secondary malware strains used to aid the deployment of the main Triton payloads contained enough artifacts that allowed researchers to identify their source.
Which we know is a lie. Why do Republicans specifically enjoy being lied to by the world's dumbest people?
You know, you people are really sick, clinically speaking that is. I don't know how you cure an entire society. I hope it can be done peacefully.
Next.
And then a was dismembered in a fist fight
but seriously...
Which side am I supposed to be rooting for on in this one?
This might be a belated but amateurish tit for tat.
The problem with failing at covert actions is that they become, ah, not covert, and provide justification for a more conventional response.
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." - H. G. Wells
Perhaps the malware was developed by a bunch of Americans who can speak Russian on behalf of the CIA using computers that were set to Moscow time, and that these self-same American hackers merely "hacked into" the CNIIHM to use it as a proxy so that they would have plausible deniability ...
The only "proven" user of cyberterrorism is by the United States of America, just as that is the only country that has ever used Nuclear Weapons on Civilians (on anyone, really).
Saudi's didn't purchase America when it paid Elliot Boidy, and Crown Prince Bonesaw funded Kushner co's projects. It bought a few people and a bit of influence. Kushner lost his security clearance after CIA data made its way to bonesaw. Some adults did their duties, some Republicans did put country before party:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/27/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance/index.html
And the Mueller probe and all the convictions and pending ones show there are adults regarding Russia. Trump got power, got the unredacted PP tape, and the names of the Russians that verified the veracity of the PP story. Then those people were arrested for spying and that was the last we heard of them. And Russia claimed *they* were behind any US election hacking.... right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/world/europe/sergei-mikhailov-russian-cybercrimes-agent-arrested.html
Yet Canada blocked Trump from putting Putin in the G7, and some Republicans blocked him from bringing Russian police over to investigate Russia's election interference. And from Russian led 'cooperation' with Russian forces in Syria. i.e. he was prevented from putting US troops under Russian Generals in Syria. All that Helsinki crap he agreed to, was blocked by Congress.
It's election time right now. If you poll people, and they claim to be Republican on the phone, they will be full on KKK. The opinions you will get will be ultra extreme. And Republicans under election pretend to be in sympathy with them because its election time and they cannot lose the Trump/KKK vote.
But not all of them will put party before country. You give in too easy.
US main stream media is throwing up another smoke screen around the murder of that journalist to distract us.
They don't. They're really not more gullible than everyone else.
I saw yesterday on Reddit, somebody doing a 'look at the hypocrisy of Republicans' claim. He'd measured them on key issues back in 2016, he measured them on key issues now, and concluded Republicans had massively shifted to the extreme right. Which he called 'hypocrisy'. Suddenly Republicans are all pro-Russian, black-hating, want healthcare taken away, and toddlers prisons at the border, out in the hate extremes of politics.
*But* all that's happened is the *subset* of people who identify as 'Republican' has shifted to the right. The middle ground Republicans have been driven away. In the 2016 sample, he was sampling a mixture of middle ground and extreme Republicans, in the 2018 one, he's sample only among the nazi fringe.
In the individual people, their views only shifted a little.
The Democrats gained some Republicans, so the overall sample views of Democrats shifted a little to the right, and the Republicans lost the middle ground shifting them to the extreme right.
Fox News still does it's attempted manipulations, but the audience wises up, and they have to replace the tainted presenter. That's why they line up new ones, so Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, is lined up to replace Hannity. Just as Glenn Beck was overshadowed and replaced by Bill O'Reilly.
Fuck the Saudis.
I think this is something that both political extremes in the US can and should agree on.
Republican politicians should be targeting ALL potential voters, including the group who will not currently identify as Republican for the survey (due to Trump). A survey of people prepared CURRENTLY to vote Republican is not the same as a survey of everyone who COULD POTENTIALLY vote Republican.
This is where I think Cruz is making a mistake.
He's gone ultra right. Instigators in the crowd scream "lock him up", referring to Beto O’Rourke, his competitor. Ted Cruz then says, "he can share a cell with Hillary Clinton". i.e. Cruz is following the crowd, the crowd isn't following Cruz. Worse he's following a *fringe* in the crowd. Often you'll get partisan manipulators at these thing, and he's the one being manipulated when he echoed them.
Dumb ass. He has to keep the everyday Republicans too. If he drives them away, there aren't enough KKKs to keep him in power.
The problem will occur at the next Primaries, the only people who will be voting for Republican candidates will be out there in the Purge fringe.
FireEye who are they? Aslicon Valey company founded in 2004 by Ashar Aziz with capital provided by Sequoia Capital. Their current CEO is Kevin Mandia. He was also a United States Air Force Officer and been involved with information security for over fifteen years, beginning in the military as a Computer Security Officer at the Pentagon.
The Dems have fricken lost it...
Or a CIA malware with Russian signature. You can't tell anymore.
it's weird how American or pro-American countries always "link" the countries on the current global agenda to these things, literally throwing wrenches into the works, causing anger just by putting out a "report" on these things. Russia has no reason to start a fight with Saudi Arabia, and even if they had, they wouldn't leave a trail of evidence pointing right back at them, that is simply not how intelligence services work.
Certain intelligence services however work by making false accusations and pitting enemies against eachother. This is what we're seeing here.
If they don't have power, it doesn't matter if the next Republican is another extremist out on the fringe. They end up as a Le Pen figure, or ranting about gay frogs while trying to sell protein supplements to pay alimony.
The risk isn't that the Republican party moves ever further to the fringe, it's that they stay in power in the process using tricks. i.e. the voter disenfranchisement games/ ballot paper 'mistakes'/ polling station tricks.
If they lose power, it doesn't matter what they are.
It's when you get the voters wanting one thing, and the result of the election games producing another, you get a gap. And the 'elected' seek to further remove voters and divide the remainder, no longer seeking a majority, but rather a divided opposition and mechanisms to manipulate how the vote is counted (distort the Electoral college further, gerrymandering, age limits....).
I doubt many Republican Senators and Congressmen are happy they have to pretend to be Trump's bitch. But if Trump won't bend to the Republican agenda, and has zero investment in their party, then they're having to bend to his.
Have the Saudis ever considered not runing production processes on Microsoft Windows directly connected to the Internet.
So we can assume that Students at a government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow, are behind the cyberattack.
Just like students at MIT have done things in the past that they eventually regret.
No way he's behind this. Betcha is was Iran!
Will be an interesting fight. Russia will use poison and S. A. will lure Russians into embassies to be hacked into little pieces. Who will win???
Air gap ; know it, use it, love it.
Is it really THAT hard?
Out in full force to sweep this narrative under the rug.
The Donald bellows in his best stentorian Preacher's Voice:
No Collusion! No Collusion! No hacking, Putin denied it, he was Very Strong! What can I do, I'm only the President of the United States!
Where there's smoke, there's Presidential BS.
If I'm reading Russia's intentions right, it *sounds* like they are trying to get the Saudi's to increase oil production to lower the price of a barrel of crude - that sneaky Putin.
imagine a soft, buttery paw gently pressing down onto a sleeping soldier's face. forever.
You are a moron. Just wanted to put that there, out front.
You complain about the Left becoming more "left", when it isn't even your business whether they do or not. You aren't identifying with the Left, so piss off. It's no business of yours.
Next, you complain about what the Left "says". Meanwhile, some right wing nut sends bombs, and still the right wing finds excuses. Nothing but excuses and hypocrisy there, courting the extremists, encouraging them, baiting them, then pretend it's "nothing to do with us!"
Nor is this new. Remember how a different right wing nut ran down and killed a demonstrator in Charlottesville? Same deal. In fact the whole Charlottesville neo-Nazi march tells us everything important about the modern Right. Invite the Nazis and racists in, encourage them, promote and protect them.
But it's the Left who is extreme. Sure, OK.