Ukrainian Hackers Compromised Russian Spy Who Hacked Democrats In 2016 (reuters.com) 72
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Ukrainian hackers claim to have broken into the emails of a senior Russian military spy wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior U.S. Democrats ahead of Donald Trump's election to the presidency in 2016. In a message posted to Telegram on Monday, a group calling itself Cyber Resistance said it had stolen correspondence from Lt. Col. Sergey Morgachev, who was charged in 2018 with helping organize the hack and leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign.
InformNapalm said in an article about the breach that it had confirmed Morgachev's identity by poring through personnel files and a curriculum vitae stolen by the hackers, including one document that identified him as a department head in Unit 26165 -- the same position which the FBI accused him of holding in 2018. [...] It wasn't immediately clear what information the hackers had managed to steal or how significant it was. Morgachev's inbox could potentially hold insight into Russia's hacking operations, including the operation against Clinton and the Democrats.
In its indictment, the FBI described him as an officer in the Russia's military spy agency, still known by its old acronym, GRU. It said his department was "dedicated to developing and managing malware," including the "X-Agent" spy software used to hack the DNC. In its message announcing the theft, the group said of Morgachev: "A very cool and clever hacker, but ... We hacked him."
InformNapalm said in an article about the breach that it had confirmed Morgachev's identity by poring through personnel files and a curriculum vitae stolen by the hackers, including one document that identified him as a department head in Unit 26165 -- the same position which the FBI accused him of holding in 2018. [...] It wasn't immediately clear what information the hackers had managed to steal or how significant it was. Morgachev's inbox could potentially hold insight into Russia's hacking operations, including the operation against Clinton and the Democrats.
In its indictment, the FBI described him as an officer in the Russia's military spy agency, still known by its old acronym, GRU. It said his department was "dedicated to developing and managing malware," including the "X-Agent" spy software used to hack the DNC. In its message announcing the theft, the group said of Morgachev: "A very cool and clever hacker, but ... We hacked him."
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They keep trotting out the debunked "Russian collusion" canard. That dog won't hunt.
And if that was at all what had happened there might have been a reason for you to bring it up.
The whole reason this story is being touted is to reinforce that narrative.
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Not "debunked" other than by Faux Noise, and Bill Barr*.
* Barr: working for TFG. Went on fishing expedition against Bill Clinton. Find someone not overwhelmingly right-wing political to assert this.
Re: "Not able to corroborate" (Score:1)
That dog hunted just fine and brought home convictions. The MAGA crowd doesnâ(TM)t care who helped Trump as long as MAGA wins.
Nowhere near as impressive as the Vault-7 hack (Score:1, Insightful)
Hacking someone's personal email account.
How many cat pictures did they expect to find there?
For all one knows this is just a honeypot and they just created the perfect alibi for the real hacker. =/
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Hmmm... so? (Score:3, Interesting)
It's either propaganda created by Ukraine who aren't exactly a neutral party regarding Russia or it's true (or substantially so), in which case... so?
The guy was known. The article doesn't reveal anything particularly interesting every intelligence agency on the planet wouldn't already know.
This looks more like an "arf arf arf got you!" thing rather than a true intelligence win.
Re:Hmmm... so? (Score:4, Insightful)
Sounds a whole lot like qtards and "Hunter Biden's Laptop"
Also, pretty fucking sad when you think Donald Trump of all people is clean
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Given how "little" they found on Al Capone, they could only get him on tax evasion...
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The 54 felonies are still just accusations. And you left out a bunch, though I'm as angry at his practice of defrauding people that he's hired as almost anything else...well, really I'm angry that he was able to do that an not get prosecuted, because they were relatively powerless. The "justice" system is broken.
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Sounds a whole lot like qtards and "Hunter Biden's Laptop"
HB Laptop emails verified from alternate sources. "10% for the Big Man" is a very serious charge which should have been investigated, and still should be. To assume that only "qtards" think that there's a there there is shortsighted or disingenuous.
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It's funny that the left has been hard core going after trump since 2015 but all for bullshit.
His real estate dealings are dirty as fuck but instead of looking at his real crimes, the left makes up or inflated a bunch of crap.
If they weren't so stupid and incompetent he'd have been arrest before the 2016 election, but not for all this blatantly political crap.
Re:Hmmm... so? (Score:4, Funny)
WTF are you on, and where can I get some?
I think I need it for the upcoming election season
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C'mon, whichever side you're on... 2016 Trump vs Clinton was Godzilla vs. Megashark. Greatest upset in American history.
2020 was worn out, half-crazed from covid and media Trump vs half-dead Biden.
2012 was bland Obama vs. blander Mormon weirdo Romney.
2008 was somewhat better, fresh Obama vs. crazed Neocon Cheney, but it was unlikely a Republican would win after the W disaster.
And so on. Nothing like 2016, in our lifetimes.
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It provides us with more evidence that Russia did interfere in the US election, in support of Donald Trump. Some people are unwilling to believe the evidence from US authorities like Mueller, although somehow I doubt this independent source will convince them either.
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It isn't evidence of anything. I don't care what it says. The source is unreliable and the data within isn't even internally consistent. As others have noted, numbers have been edited for things like casualty figures in some documents but not others.
How is a garbage document cache released by some alleged hackers, allegedly from a real Russian government hacker's personal email eveicence of anything? If this was presented in court, the chain of custody is so thoroughly corrupt, no one but a third rate l
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It's either propaganda created by Ukraine who aren't exactly a neutral party regarding Russia or it's true (or substantially so), in which case... so?
The guy was known. The article doesn't reveal anything particularly interesting every intelligence agency on the planet wouldn't already know.
This looks more like an "arf arf arf got you!" thing rather than a true intelligence win.
We don't know what intel they got (probably not a ton if they're publicizing it) so I wouldn't say it's hugely significant, but it's not trivial either.
One of the things countries rightly care about is their reputation. The reputation of the Russian army was pretty strong and intimidated a bunch of people, and then they invaded Ukraine. Now, if I'm a country neighbouring Russia (especially one in NATO) and Russia tries to push me around I'm a lot more willing to tell them to take a hike.
Cyber warfare on the
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Assuming this is even his stuff. But let's go with that.
You're a nearby neighbor to Russia they want to reclaim for their empire. This leaked whatever it is comes out. Do you decide to spend anything less on cyber defense?
If it doesn't change anyone's behavior then I suggest it has no value.
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Assuming this is even his stuff. But let's go with that.
You're a nearby neighbor to Russia they want to reclaim for their empire. This leaked whatever it is comes out. Do you decide to spend anything less on cyber defense?
If it doesn't change anyone's behavior then I suggest it has no value.
It's about soft power. If Russia asks you do to X and you've lost respect for their Cyber Warfare they're suddenly a less threatening adversary and a less useful friend, meaning you're less inclined to agree to X.
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But I would not have lost respect for their cyber warfare capabilities at all. They have a long track record of successful hacks around the world. This report would not in any way lessen my concern as a leader of a neighboring country of their cyber war abilities.
Excellent, been looking all over for those (Score:5, Funny)
Did they find the Soros Deep State Pizza Pedo Basement JFK Jr. files that connect Hunter's laptop to the Jewish space laser using the network of vaccine-embedded 5G chips made by B. Gates? If not, did they find my missing green sock? Almost as good.
I've been waiting for so very long for this. (Score:2)
It is my absolute pleasure to inform you that it was I that abducted your green sock! Why? For the ransom money of course! That is... unless you want to slowly get your precious green sock one piece at a time in the mail. Oh what's this? A loose fiber on your beloved green sock... I wonder if I should pull it.
The clock is ticking, Tablizer.
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
P.S. You know that other stuff is just conspiracy theory nonsense, right?
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> You know that other stuff is just conspiracy theory nonsense, right?
No, Soros really did take my sock. Fluffy witnessed it, and I speak feline.
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I don't mean to alarm you but I think your cat may be a white nationalist.
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What a coincidence. I have a missing green sock too. I wonder if they ran off together?
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I fully support hacking every single email account of every politician and releasing 100% of what they've sent while they're serving as public servants.
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In the US you can file a freedom of information act request for that.
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It's okay, the head of the FBI said they'd normally prosecute someone for that, as it's a massive felony, but they didn't want to this time.
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Why didn’t they prosecute Colin Powell?
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Elites don't face the same consequences as the rest of us. A crime that the head of the FBI shrugs about on TV would put a normal person in prison for 25 years.
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That was actually recommended by Colin Powell and the whole Bush administration did it. It was in the news but for some reason you never heard or cared.
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but thankfully, their backup solution - DATTO - had full copies, which the FBI then took, and did nothing with.
the corruption in the US is OBVIOUS.
as long as the money keeps flowing into the pockets of war profiteers and US citizens aren't paying with too much of their own blood, nothing will change.
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Lol, notice how you were modded flamebait. way to go Slashdot.
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Just file your request with the Chinese. They have a copy of everything already.
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Wow (Score:1)
The Ukranians hacked Seth Rich?
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notice how you got modded down to 0 score?
lovely how slashdot allows this type of behaviour that ALWAYS downvotes truthful posts, and upvotes deceitful ones.
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I hate being censored in any fashion, and companies like OpenWeb, which provide moderator services for news-site posting boards, are extremely aggressive and will censor and remove posts for just mentioning the initials "BDS" (the Palestinian Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement). Slashdot has great news articles, and I am sometimes motivated to comment, but I have had posts removed, and--as you now say--"modded." I think that the U.K. in general takes a more active role in censorship, and Slashdot is oft
You mean, "ahead of the 2016 election", right? (Score:2)
A lie the reporter and editor appear to still believe.
The whole thing is fake (Score:2)
Who puts those documents into email? A photo of his car? A photo of his birth cert?
Look at the picture captioned
"Pictured: Yekaterina Morgacheva and Sergey Morgachev."
The shadows don't match. His face is obviously shopped. Look at the focus on her hands and on his. His hands are too blurred.
We know the DNC emails were exfiltrated, not transmitted. The NSA would know the IP addresses of all outgoing traffic from those servers: "collect it all". They found squat in terms of IP traffic. If only they'd found th
Pity the forensic evidence points to physical.. (Score:1)
...presence to copy the data to USB drive.
Just another piece of propaganda to fool those inattentive types.
Let me guess.. (Score:2)
Or at least they will have done that, just so long as the Democrats keep shoveling tens of billions of dollars at them, right?
I'm sure it's legit.
Repeating propaganda does not make it factual. (Score:2)
The article re-asserts one of the original lies that underpinned the dirty lies of the 2016 election, namely that "Russia hacked the DNC". This claim was a critical part of the Hillary campaign's big lie that Trump was in collusion with Russia to steal the election from her, and it worked really well for a couple of years, but was upended after congressional investigators grilled the FBI officials UNDER OATH (as opposed to when anonymously whispering to friendly journalists). When under oath, the FBI offici