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Ukrainian Hackers Compromised Russian Spy Who Hacked Democrats In 2016 (reuters.com) 72

Posted by BeauHD from the two-can-play-that-game dept.
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."
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  • Nowhere near as impressive as the Vault-7 hack (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    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. =/

  • Hmmm... so? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by iAmWaySmarterThanYou ( 10095012 ) on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:17PM (#63442752)

    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: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      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.

      • 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

    • 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

      • 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.

        • 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.

          • 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)

    by Tablizer ( 95088 ) on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:18PM (#63442754) Journal

    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.

    • 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?

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Tablizer ( 95088 )

        > 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.

    • What a coincidence. I have a missing green sock too. I wonder if they ran off together?

  • 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.

  • The Ukranians hacked Seth Rich?

  • "ahead of Donald Trump's election to the presidency in 2016", is a pathetic attempt to imply a connection that has been thoroughly debunked. A lie for which the Clinton campaign was entirely responsible, as they paid Russian spies to invent it. Doing the exact same thing they accused Trump of doing.

    A lie the reporter and editor appear to still believe.

  • 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

  • ...presence to copy the data to USB drive.

    Just another piece of propaganda to fool those inattentive types.

  • These Ukrainian hackers have uncovered the infamous pee tapes and evidence that will finally close the walls in on Trump?

    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.

  • 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

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