The Justice Department announced charges Friday against 12 Russian intelligence officers for hacking offenses during the 2016 presidential election.
The indictments were announced Friday by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as part of the ongoing special counsel probe into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The Russians are accused of hacking into the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and then releasing stolen emails on the internet in the months before the election.
Next they will accuse 'The Russians' of weaponizing the emails. You all know which emails I'm referring to... The disgusting pedophile emails that wikileaks released in the fall of 2016.
Shit is getting real my friends... Never forget, his name was Seth Rich.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/12-russians-accused-hacking-democrats-2016-us-election-161839939--politics.html
The indictments - https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download
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Pizzalawyer ago
Ive read only the news report you furnished us. There is a difference between hacking and downloading on a thumbdrive. . I wonder can any of the hacking be traced to the Wikileaks disclosures. I believe Assange said that the materials he was given could not have been transmitted that fast from to him, that in his opinion the theft of files that he published was an inside job. Im far from.tech savvy but want to know if there is any evidence here relative to Seth Rich. Just pondering...
KnightsofHubris ago
It's certainly possible that could have something that connects this Wikileaks, but Wikileaks has said that their system allows for anonymous submissions, that Wikileaks doesn't know who is uploading to them. Which is why it was very fishy when Assange tried to imply Seth Rich was the uploader.
Hacking and a thumb drive are not mutually incompatible. In fact, the major criticism of the "Forensicator" analysis is he didn't know what he was measuring. He had no idea what the metadata and speeds referred to Even if he proved the metadata showed the files were moved to a thumb drive AND HE DIDN'T. There's still myriad ways the files could have wound up on a thumb drive AFTER the hack.
For example, you hack and extract the files, but you don't want to use your computer. So you do this from an internet cafe and when you have the files you put them on a thumb drive.
Or you hack the files to your hard drive, but now you have to pass the files to the intelligence agency you are working for. So instead of leaving a trail of you to your handler, you mail a thumb drive to them or do a dead drop or go to the same Starbucks and hand it to them.
Or you are a foreign intelligence agency and you hack and extract the files right to your headquarters. But you don't speak English very well or you are an IT guy, not a political guy, so you have to hand off copies to various other people who are going to analyze the files you have.
But Foresicator's theory failed just on the technical merits. The speeds revealed by the metadata can be achieved by nation state hackers.
Pizzalawyer ago
thanks, Sir Knight, I think its safe to assume that a governmental computer has far more capabilities than a Gucifer sitting at Starbucks.. the Seth Rich murder still begs for justice.
KnightsofHubris ago
just looked at some people reading the through the announcement on twitter.
lots of new info. GRU leased servers in Illinois and Arizona as part of this campaign.
https://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ilinois-in-indictment-2.png
A Unix version of the GRU malware remained on the DNC computers until October!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dh_-BaSU8AAwW86.jpg
Wikileaks and GRUccifer were not hiding the fact that they were working together early on. https://twitter.com/GUCCIFER_2/status/788035352053374976
Wikileaks has claimed previously that it is just like a newspaper, i.e. if people like Bradley Manning pass them info, they are not guilty of espionage, they are just a news publisher was given newsworthy material. This indictment shows them to be soliciting material they know to be stolen and actively seeking it on a timeline to have a political impact.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dh_-nFZV4AAHdmC.jpg
Remember the timeline.
June 15, 2016............Crowstrike publishes this post saying that both the Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear hacking teams had penetrated the DNC server.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/
Later that same day a previously unknown hacker appears claiming to be a Romanian just like the Original Guccifer. People immediate suspect this is Cozy Bear or Fancy Bear
https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/dnc/
Jun 21 2016..........Vice magazine speaks to him and find out he can't speak Romanian. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/aek7ea/dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-interview