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Russian Hackers Allegedly Attempted To Breach the DNC After the 2018 Midterms (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Russian hackers attempted to breach Democratic National Committee email addresses in a spear-phishing campaign just after the 2018 midterms, according to a DNC court document filed Thursday night. "The content of these emails and their timestamps were consistent with a spear-phishing campaign that leading cybersecurity experts have tied to Russian intelligence," reads the complaint. "Therefore, it is probable that Russian intelligence again attempted to unlawfully infiltrate DNC computers in November 2018." The complaint [...] said there is no evidence that the attempted hack in Nov. 2018 was successful.
Spear-phishing campaigns involve sending emails that appear to be from a trusted source in order to gain confidential information. According to CNN, the emails in question appeared to have been sent from a State Department official and contained a PDF attachment that, if opened, would allow the hacker access to the recipient's computer. The timing and content of these emails were consistent with the practices of the Russian hacking group known as Cozy Bear, one of the two groups that hacked the DNC prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. According to the cybersecurity firm FireEye, Cozy Bear attempted to hack over 20 entities in Nov. 2018, including clients in local government, transportation, defense, law enforcement, and military.
Spear-phishing campaigns involve sending emails that appear to be from a trusted source in order to gain confidential information. According to CNN, the emails in question appeared to have been sent from a State Department official and contained a PDF attachment that, if opened, would allow the hacker access to the recipient's computer. The timing and content of these emails were consistent with the practices of the Russian hacking group known as Cozy Bear, one of the two groups that hacked the DNC prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. According to the cybersecurity firm FireEye, Cozy Bear attempted to hack over 20 entities in Nov. 2018, including clients in local government, transportation, defense, law enforcement, and military.
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We're coming up on three years since the "hack" supposedly happened. The DNC has produced absolutely no evidence it actually happened. WikiLeaks has come out and flat-out said they didn't receive the email dump from Russia or any state. There's a lot of circumstantial evidence it was an inside job: if you look at timestamps created when files were copied off the system, you'll see that they show evidence that someone copied the files off the server using a USB thumbstick.
Face it, just because the "blue wave" failed to materialize and Trump remains extremely popular despite the Democrat Shutdown, doesn't mean that Russia was involved in the election. There is no evidence that they were. All actual facts point to Hillary being a record unpopular candidate who Americans resoundingly rejected. Accept that Democrats just aren't that popular, and that real Americans side with Trump.
The Russians and the Chinese try to hack EVERYONE. All the major corporations, no matter what they produce. All the politicians, no matter what their party. All the banks, all the universities, all the tech firms - all of it.
Trying to play off standard, everyday behaviors as special and indicative of something deeper, as is done here. turns normal news into storytime fiction.
Actually fucktard, in September of '15 the FBI contacted the DNC telling them at least 1 computer had been compromised. Evidence in any FBI investigation is not, nor ever has been publicly released, so, no - YOU will never see it. The FBI's information was substantiated by FireEye, a company that makes security firewalls.
But then again, you're likely one of those "deep state" paranoids who has no time to be bothered with facts.
I only hear claims. How can they be sure it did not come from somewhere else? It's trivial to reroute though other computers in the same country or other countries. I can not see how the US can be aware of every single connection going in and out of every country...(probabilistic matching incoming and outgoing streams to determine proxies). Russia and China along with other not quite US friendly countries in that region have direct connections. But supposing they did there are ways to disguise the data to make them sufficiently unmatchable. Further nowadays these things are done via script and fully automated. There are reasons for countries to make it seems like data is coming from one another.
Russia and China are full of technologically sophisticated people fully capable of hacking with their own agendas.
It was a US domestic political event with a human walking out with data to give to the media.
A Pentagon paper event totally internal to the USA and US politics.
Random spear-phishing attempts did not move data out as it was done by a person in person.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
as to your "blue wave" comment, just looking at the numbers..
Dems took 40 House seats away from the GOP. On the State level, the Dems took 7 Governors away from the GOP, 6 legislatures and over 300 State House and Senate seats. So if you're calling the GOP flipping 3 Senate seats a "win", you're delusional. 350+ (Blue Flipped) Vs 3 (Red Flipped) is a MASSIVE blue wave by any measurement. Sorry Sparky, go back and sniff more FauxNoise coolaid.
The president's party always loses seats in the midterms. It was true for Obama as well. The "blue wave" was expected to be overwhelming, and it ... just didn't happen. We got a relatively normal midterm. Attempts to hype it up as something earthshattering are just false - turnout was slightly higher than expected, but still lower than presidential election years. You saw about an average swing. Sorry, the "blue wave" was just a normal blue trickle, and it'll almost certainly be entirely reversed in 2020, especially if Trump can remind voters of the record shutdown the Democrats caused the instant they had even a whiff of power.
What the fuck are you talking about? The Republicans controlled the house when the shutdown started, dipshit. They had control of the house for two years, and for those two years, the wall didn't seem that important.
Perhaps they should've focused on building the wall instead giving the super rich a tax cut.
I think at this point, anyone who doesn't take an overall look at Russian operations all over the world, and the general ambitions of Vladimir Putin, who doesn't see that this is all a form of guerrilla warfare isn't paying close enough attention, is in denial, or is one of their extraterritorial operatives whitewashing the whole thing. What we're seeing are just the early stages of the overall agenda and gameplan.
As much as you would wish it to be not true, doesnâ(TM)t make it false, there is a strong connection:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-russians-hacked-the-dnc-and-passed-its-emails-to-wikileaks/2018/07/13/af19a828-86c3-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html?utm_term=.7f5f14fdd746
Good, maybe someone in the FSB will be able to figure out the Dems political strategy, 'cause I sure can't.
Which is why the spending bill had passed the House before the shutdown started. Where it failed was the Senate, where Democrats used the filibuster to block it until the new session of Congress happened and they could use their new power in the House to keep the government closed.
Like I said, they got a hint of power and immediately used it to shut down the government, even before they were seated.
The problem with lying, and getting caught, is it tends to wreak havoc on your credibility.
After the BS they pulled with Bernie / Hillary, they are naive ( or arrogant ) to believe that anyone will ever put any faith
into any story they wish to tell. The doubt will be there again in 2020 when they nominate their next candidate and you
can be sure Team Red* is going to make sure everyone and their brother remembers it.
*Not that Team Red is the poster child of truthfulness, mind you, but they will surely throw some fuel on that fire.
At what point will the people decide that the only way forward is to remove the cancer that is our entrenched elected leadership
and start from scratch ? It seems the only ones who have been getting screwed over for the past several decades are us . . . . .
It's a shame the US doesn't have the " No Confidence " rule to remove an incompetent / incapable government.
“According to CNN, the emails in question appeared to have been sent from a State Department official and contained a PDF attachment that, if opened, would allow the hacker access to the recipient's computer.”
Really, it's for such insightful technical analysis that keeps me coming back here. Would this PDF attachment run a script that hacked a Microsoft Windows computer? The rest of the story is merely the usual neocon waffle, part of the strategy to provoke the next cold war with Russia.
Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak — an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system.
‘ To this day, however, the intelligence agencies that released this assessment have failed to provide the American people with any actual evidence substantiating their claims about how the DNC material was obtained or by whom. Astonishingly and often overlooked, the authors of the declassified ICA themselves admit that their “judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact.” ’
I'm not sure who I'm more disgusted with, the anonymous pansy who shared this nonsense or SlashDot for keeping the Russophobia ball going to the detriment of U.S. credibility. I'll tell you this though, I wish Microsoft and Amazon's attempts at penetrating my network were as infrequently as those of the Russians. My log files tell me who my enemies are and Russia is NOT one of them.
The president's party always loses seats in the midterms. It was true for Obama as well. The "blue wave" was expected to be overwhelming, and it ... just didn't happen. We got a relatively normal midterm. Attempts to hype it up as something earthshattering are just false - turnout was slightly higher than expected, but still lower than presidential election years. You saw about an average swing. Sorry, the "blue wave" was just a normal blue trickle, and it'll almost certainly be entirely reversed in 2020, especially if Trump can remind voters of the record shutdown the Democrats caused the instant they had even a whiff of power.
Democrats won the generic ballot by 8.6%, compared to the "red wave" of 2010 where the GOP only won by 6.8%.
The reason the GOP had a 59 seat advantage with +6.8% of the vote while Democrats only had a 36 seat advantage with +8.6% is the GOP gerrymandered the hell out of the US in 2012, which is actually a pretty idiotic thing to do.
The point of winning is to enact your polities, and unless your policies include widespread civil unrest then undercutting the legitimacy of the government is not the thing you want to do.
I stole this Sig
Amazing how much more secure the firewall is when you stop using the default administrator password.
House was expected, happens every time. Senate, on the other hand, was critical, given that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is about to kick the bucket. Only the Senate is needed to confirm her replacement.
Yes, look at the numbers and compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. Your "blue wall" theory is as garbage in 2018 as it was in 2016. Trump actually outperformed Presidents Obama and Clinton with respect to first midterm losses.
In 2018, Trump's first midterm election, the Republicans lost 42 seats.
In 2010, Obama's first midterm election, the Democrats lost 63 seats.
In 1994, Clintons's first midterm election, the Democrats lost 54 seats.
The fantasy of a "blue wall" is of great help to Trump. Is there some reason you perpetuate this myth?
Far too many are prepared to up play, down play, blame the victim for short term political advantage.
When will people wise up and recognise that Putin is one of world's biggest threats to the freedom we enjoy in the west?
Totally false. Budget bills have to start in the House. The House has yet to pass a single bill reopening the government.
This is blatant bullshit. The new House has in in fact passed a couple of different budget bills, the Reps even have a choice. The first is a copy of the bill that was already passed but Trump refused to sign. There are also bills that fund and open individual departments.
Apart from that, the House has passed a number very reasonable bills to reform the election process and other important maintenance, and started a number of long overdue inquiries into government atrocities, corruption, and overreach, so any claim that the House and Pelosi are not doing their jobs is just propaganda bullshit.