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US Military Publicly Dumps Russian Government Malware Online (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: This week, U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), a part of the military tasked with hacking and cybersecurity focused missions, started publicly releasing unclassified samples of adversaries' malware it has discovered. CYBERCOM says the move is to improve information sharing among the cybersecurity community, but in some ways it could be seen as a signal to those who hack U.S. systems: we may release your tools to the wider world. On Friday, CYBERCOM uploaded multiple files to VirusTotal, a Google-owned search engine and repository for malware. Once uploaded, VirusTotal users can download the malware, see which anti-virus or cybersecurity products likely detect it, and see links to other pieces of malicious code.
One of the two samples CYBERCOM distributed on Friday is marked as coming from APT28, a Russian government-linked hacking group, by several different cybersecurity firms, according to VirusTotal. Those include Kaspersky Lab, Symantec, and Crowdstrike, among others. APT28 is also known as Sofacy and Fancy Bear. The malware itself does not appear to still be active.
One of the two samples CYBERCOM distributed on Friday is marked as coming from APT28, a Russian government-linked hacking group, by several different cybersecurity firms, according to VirusTotal. Those include Kaspersky Lab, Symantec, and Crowdstrike, among others. APT28 is also known as Sofacy and Fancy Bear. The malware itself does not appear to still be active.
If you talk like a s'kiddie, you get treated like a s'kiddie.
Anyhow, they're keeping the good stuff for themselves, of course. So this is chickenfeed for the world. (Term of art. Look it up.)
I will laugh my ass off if the Russian's simply do the same thing and upload American malware, we already know from multiple sources that America is doing cyber war just as much as the Chinese and Russians etc. This is just a publicity stunt... although I have to admit I would like to take a look at them, disassemble them and see how they work. I took an in depth look at the Melissa virus back in the day (although that wasn't exactly hard, it was written in VBA) it did something that work wanted me to do, so I wanted to see how it did it. Horrible code, boggles the mind how it managed to spread and do so much damage with such shitty code. So I copied the one line of undocumented API code that it used, to do what I needed to do and the company anti-virus did not like it at all. So in a meeting I said "I can do what you want me to do, but you will have to switch off the anti-virus", yeah, that didn't fly. Rightly so, so we had to figure out another workaround.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
under high winds, the candidates' wire spike signs they stuck all over are blowing all over the place like flying spikes.
Yes, help these people out. But after things have settled down begin looking at no-building zones in these places buried in woods with poor access for large vehicles and low water main pressures. Or, if you build there you truly are on your own, pioneer! Just like the mandates being set down for people who choose to keep building and living in Mississippi flood plains. The Feds have no money to keep bailing your asses out when your little escape island is going up in flames. Or underwater with the gars.
Or she is allowed to run one. It's rotten, through and through, from top to bottom.
...and Trump knowingly uses an unsecure iphone.
If not, talk about giving away the keys to the castle...
That would be awesome! But with a Republican controlled Senate, a lot of Republucan damage don't be undone.
Expect a Trump caused recession in about 4 years and Tate Republicans blaming Obama and their sycophantic moronic hordes believing it.
Perhaps there's an attack vector that is used against voting machines. You should look carefully and if there is void the elections with those machines.
I suspect this has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with lower government officers protecting the US.
"The Marble Framework - How the CIA Obfuscates and Pretends to be Someone Else"
https://viableopposition.blogs...
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
The US's malware has been dumped already by the Shadow Brokers, we got nothing to lose at this point
As an addiction the addicted have to do the things that keep their addiction feed. Hence cybersecurity must support the problem they claim to be against.
Sure, bad on both sides is totally off base. Or you are a moron. Tough choice.
There are plenty of attack vectors against voting machines. Just go visit a good many poll stations and see what they do with the receipts, for one. Don't forget to check the dumpster out the back. (Now which documentary was that again?)
And don't forget mr. Diebold going "I will deliver you the election!" on a republican rally. Oops. Not that the other animal is free of blame. It's hijinks all over. It's just one example out of so many. The rooshians might turn out to be bit players in comparison. But they're so convenient to blame!
Inexplicably? Only if youâ(TM)re incapable of understanding how the economy works perhaps.
Awwww, did somebody trigger you by insulting your TV star great leader?
We know Russia collusion was real. We know about the ads. We know about the voter fraud. That you suggest a fake president can be put into power by another country and then we get "magical prosperity" out of it is an insult to our collective intelligence.
What's next? Gonna post a doctored video? Go back to infowars where you came from.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
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Not likely the people doing computer security are also trained firefighters so what do you suggest? They just stop doing their jobs until there are no bigger problems in the US?
we need to keep these people in our prayers
They didn't pray hard enough beforehand, that's why they are on fire. It's too late now.
It's all part of HIS plan. They are supposed to burn here and then again in the next place.
The communists are these days with Google, the DNC and big NY Finance.
Please cite evidence for all those things or even just Russian collusion. Since Mueller cant show any yet, what super powers of discovery do you have?
Oh, I know, you read Vox and listen to NPR to learn everything worth knowing.
Dumbass. The serious people are at least waiting for the Mueller report I think it will e fluff but if real I will be the first to pull a trigger on the firing line. But when it comes back empty you will just whine that Trump somehow blocked a proper investigation and should be impeached for that.
Idiot.
Giving any a-hole on the net access so they have a starting point for their malware??
well done guys, you really thought this one through
Yes, all of the filthy rich celebrities need a cash donation to help empty all the swag from their billion dollar mansions
President Pelosi. I like it!
Enough with this anti-Russian linked cyber bollix ..
Releasing copies of the Russian malware is a very bad idea. When American government malware has been released it helped to fuel a large number of attacks. The Russian malware will have the same result. It is good that the level of security can be increased in the long term. In the short term this means many more attacks not by the Russians but by people using the released malware.
For all we know, this IS US malware!
I mean this is the biggest bully on the planet, with the biggest motive too.
I have no doubt that Russia does shit like this too. But I also have no doubt that both nations aren't such noobs to not dump malware claiming it's by "the enemy".
And always remember: The sole and only point of all this bullshit is, to get American and Russian average people to hate each other, so that can be exploited both for power, and to quiet anyone criticizing both regimes. ... Except time cube flat earth bullshit probably.
I wouldn't even be surprised if they worked together and laughed their asses off at us. Yeah, tin foil hat, blah bla, daring not to suck authority dick, blah bla... I know. But I laughed at close friends for saying the things that literally were revealed in the Snowden leaks. So at this point, I shut up and don't exclude *any* possibility.
Glad to see somebody taking these Russian bullies down a few pegs.
Klepto-fascist Russia respects strength, and literally despises weakness. You earn their respect by drawing clear boundaries, and then punching them hard every time they step out of line.
You have to keep your pimp hand strong with these backwards bitches. There's no reasoning with them, because they are not civilised people of good will. You can't talk to Putinists like you talk to (say) the Americans or Europeans.
...for thinking aloud about the possibility of this very thing. And here we are.
It's like the latest South Park episode: Goddammit, I'm sorry Al Gore, yes, Manbearpig is real!
Or in this case, the intelligence agencies always being one nutjob step ahead of even the craziest conspiracy theorists.
(Please don't let time cube / flat earth / lizard people be real! Please...! *crosses fingers*)
What do you have against lizard people? Besides thats a slur, we prefer to be called Reptillians.
What about the many indictments, plea bargains, and outright convictions of trump's flunkies? Mueller hasn't shown a fraction of what he has.
... to the NSA dumpibg their malware online to infect the enrire world:
https://www.google.com.sg/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/10/19/leaked_nsa_malware/