Russia Is Hacking Ukrainian Company To Try To Help Trump And Giuliani Make A Case Against Biden
As reported by The New York Times, the Washington Post, and others, the same Russian entity that hacked the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's aide John Podesta's computers in 2016 is now trying to infiltrate the emails of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, this time presumably to help Donald Trump find "dirt" on the Bidens.
Why would Russia be doing this when they were "caught" last time? After all, we know that they attempted to help Trump win the 2016 election by discrediting Trump's opponent at that time Hillary Clinton, so why would they be so brazen as to do the same thing again, by the same people (GRU) who did it last time?
Simple, they see that America didnt care (much) in 2016, and that Americans predisposed to give Trump slack will likely not care in 2020 either.
If Russia is able to find ANY information within Burisma that will embarrass Hunter Biden, any at all, even something completely unrelated to his father, it will be trumpeted to the world as "proof" Trump and Giuliani were right. Anything that can be spun off into a new mystery will be used by Trumpisms conspiracy nuts.
But here we are with more proof that there is a sympatico relationship between Trump and Russian hackers, that they go down the same shitholes in search of dirt, that they think and act alike. The Russians have seen how much their influence benefited from having a fool and liar in power in America for the past three years. The Trump presidency has been a bonanza for Putins efforts to undermine the west. He must be thinking that if he can just help this fool Trump get re-elected in four more years there might not be a "west" left to need to undermine.
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Burisma hit by Russian hackers, U.S. firm says
Russian military spies have hacked a Ukrainian gas company that is at the heart of an impeachment trial of President Trump, who sought last year to pressure Ukraine to investigate the company and its links to Joe Biden's son, according to a cybersecurity firm.
Beginning in early November, the Russian spy agency known as the GRU launched a cyber 'phishing' campaign against Burisma Holdings to trick unsuspecting employees into giving up their email credentials so the hackers could gain access to their email accounts " once again entangling Moscow in domestic U.S. politics, according to Area 1 Security, a Redwood City, Calif., company.
The operation's launch coincided with a congressional impeachment inquiry into Trump and whether he abused his office by seeking to press Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into announcing a probe of Burisma and Hunter Biden " an action that conceivably would aid Trump's reelection bid.
The GRU was active in the 2016 presidential campaign, hacking the servers of the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman and releasing their emails that summer and fall. The disclosures disrupted the Democratic convention and undermined Clinton's campaign in the critical final weeks, and the U.S. intelligence community concluded that with such actions Moscow aimed to help Trump and hurt Clinton.
Trump has publicly downplayed the intelligence agencies' conclusions and has suggested that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 election. He and his personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, have promoted an unfounded theory that Joe Biden, while vice president, tried to quash a corruption investigation of Burisma to protect his son. Hunter Biden is no longer on Burisma 's board.
The GRU succeeded in breaching the servers of Burisma Holdings and several subsidiaries and partners, said Oren Falkowitz, Area 1 Security's chief executive.
'The timing of the GRU's campaign in relation to the 2020 U.S. elections raises the specter that this is an early warning of what we have anticipated since the successful cyberattacks undertaken during the 2016 U.S. elections,' Falkowitz said.
Area 1 discovered the breach on New Year's Eve, he said. It was not known what material the GRU gained access to, and if any of it will be released.
Phishing is the most common technique used by hackers to gain access to victims' systems. Hackers send emails impersonating employees or people trusted by the targets, who are then tricked into clicking on links that contain malware or lead to malware-laced sites, enabling the hackers to obtain the victim's email credentials.
'The success of phishing relies on authenticity,' Area 1 said in a report on the incident released Monday. 'The GRU has applied verisimilitude in extensive masquerading of common business tools . . . to steal account credentials, gain access to internal systems and data, impersonate employees through the unauthorized use of their accounts.'
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the fall produced a classified 'national intelligence estimate' that assessed that the Russians would seek to interfere in the 2020 election.
Burisma Hit By Russian Hackers, U.S. Firm Says
Well other than no link to your seed on how this is tied into President Trump this is just another article to appease the TDS sufferers. Maybe we should spend 40 million dollars to investigate another bogus claim?
Its not a seed KD. Maybe you are shocked to know that some of us are capable of organizing their own thoughts, but that is your problem, not mine.
You started the story with................
Don't you think, even though it's your thoughts and supposedly your thoughts only, that you should back up your statement with at least ONE of those links?
Sounds to me like yours is an opinion piece based on you. AMIRITE?
It is an article not a seed.
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This is what I like......
Russian military spies have hacked a Ukrainian gas company that is at the heart of an impeachment trial of President Trump, who sought last year to pressure Ukraine to investigate the company and its links to Joe Biden's son, according to a cybersecurity firm.
Let me quess, Crowdstrike?
So you don't believe the report?
So you don't believe the report?
Actually Larry, I read my comment again and didn't see anywhere in it where I said anything about believing the report or not, but I did ask a question and no one has answered it, so I will answer it myself.
Yes, it may as well have been Crowdstrike, the same company who was suppose to have the DNC servers from the DNC hack. Of course, Comey had a plausible excuse for not being able to furnish the evidence, since the FBI has never had their hands on it or even saw them. They just took the word of Crowdstrike. I'm sure the Trump campaign would have been able to do the same thing, don't you think so?
Well let's see...
Area 1 Security
Blake Darché
CSO and Co-founderBlake J. Darché is a Co-Founder and the Chief Security Officer at Area 1 Security. Prior to this, he worked at CrowdStrike as a Principal Consultant, and at the National Security Agency as a Computer Network Exploitation Analyst. Blake holds an MS degree in Security Informatics from The Johns Hopkins University and a BS in Information Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Blake has built his career across a range of information security skill areas, including experience in both offense and defense.
More info:
The FBI requested direct access to the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) hacked computer servers but was denied, Director James Comey told lawmakers on Tuesday.
The bureau made “multiple requests at different levels,” according to Comey, but ultimately struck an agreement with the DNC that a “highly respected private company” would get access and share what it found with investigators.
“We’d always prefer to have access hands-on ourselves if that’s possible,” Comey said, noting that he didn’t know why the DNC rebuffed the FBI’s request.
The director was testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a rare open session on Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election.
I'm sure there would have been no problem at all had the table been turned around and it was Trump's campaign who had Crowdstrike do the investigation which never actually proved or provided proof it was really the Russians.
Crowdstrike
The company was incorporated in 2013 by founders Oren Falkowitz, Blake Darché, and Phil Syme, all of whom were formerly employed by the U.S. National Security Agency .
On December 9, 2016, the CIA told U.S. legislators that the U.S. Intelligence Community concluded Russia conducted operations during the 2016 U.S. election to prevent Hillary Clinton [11] from winning the presidency. [12] Multiple U.S intelligence agencies concluded people with direct ties to the Kremlin gave WikiLeaks hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee. [12] WikiLeaks did not reveal its source. Later Julian Assange , founder of Wikileaks, stated that the source of the emails was not Russia.
Of course that was Brennan, the communist who was the top comrade at the CIA, you know.
And the NYT, Washington Post and other Democrat News sources didn't put this bit of information in the article at hand here.
Area 1 Security has also further connected this GRU phishing campaign to another phishing campaign targeting a media organization founded by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.
You think maybe they wanted to see if Trump had any communication with Zelensky they could harm him. I mean, why would Russia want to help Trump, after all it was Obama who told them, when he didn't know the microphone was still on, "Tell Putin I will have more leverage after the election" and Russia hasn't done that good since Trump became President, after all he didn't give him Crimea on a platter and insist Germany buy they energy from the USA instead of Russia.
So, I'll answer your question, since I've already answered my question. I don't know whether to believe the story or not. There has been no proof Trump is guilty of anything after 3 years of investigating him with absolute control over the investigations run by the worst of the worst the Democrats have to offer. And the present jobs and previous jobs these people have held along the way, the unmasking and tricking people like General Michael Flynn and then bragging about not having that ability with an administration that was more adept to the deceptive practices of the FBI, CIA, NSA and any other corrupt people or agencies that have existed for some time, evidently.
All I can say is the Democrat Party is a Fascist Party in my opinion using Stalinist tactics to stop a President for some reasons I believe that are even worst than having all these Justices appointed and other changes he has been able to accomplish in 3 years. They really have something really bad they can't afford to allow to surface, but I think it will in the near future.
Given the ongoing state of war between Ukraine and Russia, do you honestly think Russia hasn't hacked Burisma years ago? This gets sillier the more you think about it.
When you factor in the company claiming this works for Democratic Presidential candidates and it becomes even more silly. How long until we find out Area 1 is a client of Biden?
Right you are. Why in hell do we care what Russia does to Ukraine? Is this just another "but the Russians helped Trump win" excuse/talking point brewing for a just in case? Of course it is.