Russian Hackers Targeted California, Indiana Democratic Parties In Repeat of 2016 Attacks (reuters.com) 58
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The group of Russian hackers accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election earlier this year targeted the email accounts of Democratic state parties in California and Indiana, and influential think tanks in Washington and New York, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The attempted intrusions, many of which were internally flagged by Microsoft Corp over the summer, were carried out by a group often nicknamed "Fancy Bear." The hackers' activity provides insight into how Russian intelligence is targeting the United States in the run-up to the Nov. 3 election. The targets identified by Reuters, which include the Center for American Progress, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said they had not seen any evidence of successful hacking attempts.
Fancy Bear is controlled by Russia's military intelligence agency and was responsible for hacking the email accounts of Hillary Clinton's staff in the run-up to the 2016 election, according to a Department of Justice indictment filed in 2018. News of the Russian hacking activity follows last month's announcement here by Microsoft that Fancy Bear had attempted to hack more than 200 organizations, many of which the software company said were tied to the 2020 election. Microsoft was able to link this year's cyber espionage campaign to the Russian hackers through an apparent programming error that allowed the company to identify a pattern of attack unique to Fancy Bear, according to a Microsoft assessment reviewed by Reuters. The thrust of espionage operations could not be determined by Reuters. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in August here that Russian operations were attempting to undermine the campaign of presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Fancy Bear is controlled by Russia's military intelligence agency and was responsible for hacking the email accounts of Hillary Clinton's staff in the run-up to the 2016 election, according to a Department of Justice indictment filed in 2018. News of the Russian hacking activity follows last month's announcement here by Microsoft that Fancy Bear had attempted to hack more than 200 organizations, many of which the software company said were tied to the 2020 election. Microsoft was able to link this year's cyber espionage campaign to the Russian hackers through an apparent programming error that allowed the company to identify a pattern of attack unique to Fancy Bear, according to a Microsoft assessment reviewed by Reuters. The thrust of espionage operations could not be determined by Reuters. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in August here that Russian operations were attempting to undermine the campaign of presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Of Couse They Did (Score:1, Funny)
Trumps friends had the okay like last election.
Re: Not as impressive as.. (Score:2, Funny)
And forensically identify to be authentic. They also managed to bribe their business partner to corroborate the evidence on television and to the FBI. Crazy Russians!
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Trumps friends had the okay like last election.
Sorry. They're no longer friends [tumblr.com].
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If they want to play with our elections maybe we hack them to remove Putin?
Just how the hell is hacking anything going to change this, or anyone's election?
I'm so tired of this stupidity. Unless you're hacking into the voters brains, this is just another non-story.
Re:Why not hack back? (Score:5, Insightful)
Unless you're hacking into the voters brains, this is just another non-story.
What do you call Facebook, Twitter, et. al. disinformation coming out of Russian troll farms? If that's not attempting to "hack into voters brains", I don't know what is.
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That would imply that Putin hasn't already "hacked" his country's own elections.
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You will never know the greatness of APK. He even stopped updating his engine. Oh well!
Redbaiting.. (Score:1, Troll)
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The evidence HAS been presented, in multiple corroborative ways, for 48 hours now.
A) You're stupid
B) You're a liar
There's no reason it can't be both.
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You mean the blind store owner who lives on the opposite coast as Hunter Biden? Who gave the hard drives to the FBI a year ago and nothing happened? In fact the FBI had them a day before Trump's impeachment proceedings. So either they're fakes or the entire FBI is in on the fix.
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Opposite coast of Hunter Biden's place, down the street from Joe Biden.
And the same organization that tried to impeach Trump also hid evidence on Biden's corruption, it's almost like they don't like the former.
Where do you get your talking points, cause they are rather lame.
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C) You're a libtard LABITARD LibTaerd! ALibvTARD! libtard!
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Sounds like a few phishing emails were sent to some known Democrat email addresses. Oh no! Fancy Bear is such an extensive operation.
lock WHO up!? (Score:5, Informative)
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Can someone check on him?
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Russian Hackers (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Russian Hackers (Score:5, Insightful)
There's a reason why Putin is trying to get Trump reelected: Trump means more division and conflict inside the US and between US and her allies. Trump is bad for unity and harmony within US and with its allies, so Trump is good for Russia.
As a Trump supporter, you can go "NJA, NJA, NJA, NJA, NJA, CAN'T HEAR YOU!!! RUSSIAHACK! SHMANIGANS!"
But the fact is a definitively hostile foreign country is trying to influence US elections. This is not a Democratic conspiracy, but reality
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyb... [fbi.gov]
Maybe this should make you stop and think. The fact that so many Trump supporters simply wave this situation away as if it was nothing, is practically treason. Their loyalty to Trump for some reason goes above the loyalty to the county - the institutions, the constitution and the rule of law.
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I didn't say that Trump has no accomplishments. I agree that, getting NATO allies to increase their spending was one of his accomplishments.
This doesn't change the fact that overall his administration is a train wreck, that he has increased the division in US society, which has a lot to do with Trump's personality and aggressive, inflammatory rhetoric. And that Russia sees that as an advantage. And that Russia hacks to let the US continue to move in that direction are real.
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No one ever has explained how these master Russian hackers won 30 out of the 50 states for Trump in 2016 over the massively popular Clinton.
They may not have explained it, but they insisted on investigating it repeatedly before finally admitting it was a bullshit story.
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It has nothing to do with picking a winner and everything to do with creating distrust in the system and in fighting among Americans.
And they succeeded brilliantly, and it appears they will again, after a few cycles of eroding your systems and exploiting your fears they will have damaged it irreparably, America will no longer be the world power it is now and a power vacuum will appear which they will gladly fill
Not so fancy (Score:1)
And 2012 and 2008 and 2004 and 2000 and .... (Score:1)
It's only news now because orange man baaa aa a ad. Ba a aa ad.
Re: Wait, people still believe the Russian meddlin (Score:1)
Biden heading for a historic loss (Score:1)
Prediction: Trump will win again. Look, not a big Trump fan .. but reality is that Biden's campaign has been very weak. They focussed on vote by mail .. people don't wanna vote by mail. Also they ramped up covid fear among their own base .. therefore they won't even go out to vote on election day, let alone pick up their friends to do it. They F'd up especially in the swing states by nt going door to door. In addition about 5% of mail-in votes (most of whom are democrats this year) are invalidated due to p
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Are you kidding? Voter turnout in Texas already surpassed that of 2016. It's a hell of a lot easier than going to a polling place and standing in line.https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/politics/texas-2020-early-vote/index.html
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So? I haven't fact-checked everything they taught me in second grade .. but I believe there are 49 other states.
Texas is not the norm. Many of the swing states have relatively poor mail or advance voting numbers (not even including that a huge number will be rejected) when you consider how low Democrat turnout will be on election day. Democrats are too paralyzed to push votere turnout in person.
Reference: https://www.politico.com/news/... [politico.com]
Reference: https://www.usatoday.com/in-de... [usatoday.com]
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I voted early by mail [in California] but one has to acknowledge that the Trump administration's attempts at voter suppression are most likely to affect mail-in votes.
Indiana? (Score:1)
Re: Indiana? (Score:2)
Cyber BULLSHIT !!! (Score:1)
Fancy Bear (APT 28), a collection of hacking tools (Score:1)
It's been said before, and sad to see how the quality of people here has fallen so the last 2 decades, that APT 28 is identified by the hacking tools they use.
Those tools are available on the internet, and one "used" (never proven, evidence handled by a private security company) was hosted on wordpress and shown to be over a year old version at the time of the supposed hack.
The evidence for it being a russian hack found in the documents leaked by the "hacker" to the media prior to the WL release was in the
Fool us twice? (Score:1)
The only solid info in the at story is:
That Mueller's team of Democrat lawyers indicted some Russian hackers who may not even exist - unfortunately for the story writer and any idiot who believes this "article", the author conveniently fails to inform his readers that ALL CHARGES WERE DROPPED. The government that could bankrupt General Flynn and tie him up in legal knots for 4 YEARS over a quasi-lie they blackmailed him into telling, did not have enough on "Fancy Bear" to make it through a single court day.
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