RussiaGate Hack Debunked

danmanjones's picture

No forensics. Why? There was no hacking in the first place: Fmr CIA officer on 'Russian meddling'

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The claim:

- The Russian government hacked the DNC servers, downloaded an archive of John Podesta's emails & gave them to Wikileaks

  The evidence:

- None. Seriously, there's no known publically available forensic evidence to link the Kremlin to the attack/leak, just statements & reports

- The first company to claim 'Russia did it' was CrowdStrike, a Cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC

- CrowdStrike examined DNC's servers, something FBI was not allowed to do, and its conclusion has been repeated by the intelligence community

  CrowdStrike:

- Refused to testify in public to the House Intelligence Committee on what it knows

- Coined the term "Cozy Bear" and "Fancy Bear", which the US intelligence agencies ran with

- Co-founder & CTO is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council (propaganda arm of NATO)

- Collaborated on the 2014 Sony hack which was blamed on North Korea based on a typo

- Used unproven claims by a pro-Putin blogger to wrongly conclude Russian hackers had helped to virtually wipe out Ukrainian artillery

 

Other hacks around the 2016 election:

- It appears that Russian-speaking hackers were responsible for a number of attacks related to the election, but ZERO evidence connecting those hackers to the GRU, FSB, SVR, or any other Russian government department

- The DHS/ODNI explanation for blaming the Russian government for these security breaches:

We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.

 

 

 

 

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danmanjones's picture

First paragraph...

 

First link is just a WaPo article referencing CrowdStrike's analysis.

 
The 2nd link leads to threatconnect & onto the Crowdstrike "blog article detailing the breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) by two Russia-based threat groups", looking there for the most compelling evidence that the Kremlin was involved we have:

[FANCYBEAR USES] Extensive targeting of defense ministries and other military victims has been observed, the profile of which closely mirrors the strategic interests of the Russian government, and may indicate affiliation with Главное Разведывательное Управление (Main Intelligence Department) or GRU, Russia’s premier military intelligence service

 

"may indicate affiliation with GRU"

 

CrowdStrike have shown to be less than stellar in their use of language and data in the past. They made a wild claim that was later debunked about Russia hacking Ukraine's military. A claim they also said "have been confirmed by others in the cybersecurity community.”

 

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monkeymania's picture

LOLOLOLOL Sad

 

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skeptoid's picture

Hey look all of the Super Friends are back for some fun. Look there's eh's new sock account and wow the countmeout sock account and I'm sure Daftass will be along soon. LOL You guys having fun this weekend? I think the walls are closing in don't you? Sad indeed.

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Fullauto223cal's picture

Well look at all the 1 star votes.  Looks like the "ORANGE MAN BAD" users on here don't enjoying having their conspirary explinations for losing in 2016 debunked.

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