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.
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
Why are some calling for Biden and Hunter to testify in the impeachment hearings?
Because the fact that at least one of the two bogus impeachment articles is based on Mr. Trump's "abuse of power" when inquiring about corruption in Ukraine. If it is proven that there was Biden quid pro quo and Burisma "hired" him for their board seeking a path to Mr. Joe Biden, it would nullify that particular article............perhaps.
That is false. There was no Biden quid pro quo
This impeachment hearing is not bogus
Not true at all. Even if there was corrupt intent by Biden (THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THIS), it is still an abuse of power to withhold Congressionally designated money to force an announcement of an investigation. Adding to the fact that he then lied to Congress about the reason for the delay in issuing the money.
Remember, testimony showed that Trump wanted an announcement, not necessarily an actual investigation.
Yes there was quid pro quo, but it was not for personal gain.
And you can't prove "intent" in Trump's case either. Biden's was for protection for the cushy job his son got............If Trump is guilty, so is Biden of withholding approved funding.
So you completely discount:
Once again you completely discount:
Trump is guilty of withholding approved funding for his personal gain in getting a foreign country to interfere in an election.
Remember, sworn testimony has shown that Trump didn't care about an actual investigation, he just wanted an announcement about an investigation against Biden.
And now we find that the Trump administration surveilled the Ukraine ambassador. Yet there is nothing but crickets from all the people who screeched about legitimate surveillance of Carter Page.
Not to mention all the new evidence against Trump that has been released AFTER his impeachment. However Republicans are still showing that they do not care about any of the evidence, and would prefer not to have to pretend to hold a Senate trial.
Germany was pissed when they heard the news that the Obama administration was surveilling their LEADER . Obama wasn't "Impeached" over it.
Why?
Besides the fact that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of Biden, his actions were part of US foreign policy in Ukraine, why would some former government officials supposed wrongdoing "nullify" a current government officials wrongdoing? If Biden did anything wrong there are channels to investigate that properly, which apparently had already occurred and came up empty.
The facts show that Trump didn't actually even want an investigation, the military aid and white house visit were contingent on a public announcement of an investigation. If Trump was so righteously indignant that a former US administration might have acted corruptly in Ukraine, why wasn't he urging the new Ukrainian President to investigate his interactions with "Obama" and any Obama official? You would think with all the hate towards the former President and the fact that the Vice President was carrying out the Presidents foreign policy in Ukraine, he would have been asking Ukraine to investigate Obama. But no, Obama's not running for office. After seeing Biden beating him by double digits in a Fox hypothetical matchup poll in May, Trump immediately withholds the military aid and white house meeting and begins his pressure campaign to get the new President to publicly announce an investigation of Biden.
This is not and never has been about Trump wanting to clean up corruption. It's about Trump attempting to further and support corruption in Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and other countries led by despots and import it here into our own elections. Getting foreign governments to dig up dirt on his opponents worked for him se well last time, I'm sure he figured it would work again. Sadly, there is a section of America that is so dumb, and Trump knows it, that he may very well be right about it working again. Russia has already been caught hacking Burisma, and I'm sure there are quite a few republicans who couldn't be happier about the thought of a murderous Russian dictator illicitly using the new KGB (FSB & MGB) to assist a US President in his re-election bid which is truly a sick and sad new reality the United States finds itself in. We now have part of our nation who revere the murderous strong arm tactics of Putin who kills journalists, protestors, political opponents, dissenters and defectors even in other sovereign countries, who welcome this murderous despots aid in the re-election of their desired candidate. I really never thought I'd see this day, when a third of the nation just kneel down before the white nationalist fascism represented by Russia and pray to its newest fascist dictator Putin to intervene on behalf of their bumbling incumbent so he might win another four years.
DP, you'll never get facts across to people who worship Trump and believe every lie that comes out of his, Kellyanne's, Hannity's, and all the other Trump toadies' mouths.
You could have video proof and signed acknowledgements and they'd still deny it. TDS at its finest ... just as Trump knew when he made the comment about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. He knew the moral and intellectual qualities of his idolaters. He's turned them against America and our system of government, against our Constitution, against the truth, and against ethics and morals.
What does that have to do with surveillance an AMERICAN citizen who was our ambassador to Ukraine? Unlike Carter Page who was having very suspicious conversations with an enemy.
Always keep track of your "Employee's. Anything can happen with them, at anytime !
Absolutely nothing, just like his follow-up answer.
Both of you, how about we confine the topic to the fact that Russia is complying with the Trump game plan in Ukraine, in the election, and in the impeachment proceedings.
Russias hacking of Burisma coincided with the opening of the US impeachment inquiry.
Well maybe, just maybe Russia has their own nefarious internal reasons for looking into Burisma that has nothing to do with Mr. Trump and his opening of this can of worms led to some questions for them too? Don't know, and neither does anyone outside of the Ruskies realm know why. But it's easy to point the fingers at Trump because Trump.
I don't know that strays from the typical liberal theories that Trump is Putin's bitch. Kinda sounds like if this were true that Putin is Trump's bitch. And how do you know they are not hacking to get information they could use AGAINST Trump.
You beat me to it. Looks like we had similar ideas. The ole great minds thing ringing true again ;)
Yeah, its just a coincidence that Russia would try and illegally gain information about the company Burisma at just the exact time that Trump desperately needs such information.
Just a coincidence.
People who promote silly conspiracies often do think alike.
I asked a simple question. I'm not spreading lies. Since you asked nicely, I'll desist.
Good luck with the others.
Or Russia wants to hurt Trump by getting caught appearing to help him.
Russia's goal, as everyone should know, is to damage our country and, as the last three years have made obvious, they know how easy democrats are manipulated into losing their minds.
What could be better from Putin's point of view than hurting his nemesis Trump and feeding the paranoia of Democrats?
The old triple doublecross, lol.
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Russia thinks they can do what Giuliani and his gang that cant shoot straight couldnt. Thats all it is.
Of course Putin wants Trump in office. The world thinks trump is Putin's puppet. What megalomaniac dictator wouldnt want that level of affirmation?
Europe is more divided with Trump in office. The western democracies laugh at him. Putin appreciates all that of course.
I am not singling you out, I just dont want this seed to be about Joe and Hunter Biden instead of Russian hacking. .
Why? He's keeps sanctioning Russia (New US sanctions just stopped Russia's work on Russia's natural gas pipeline to Europe, not that you'd learn that from watching CNN) and put Russia's ally Iran's regime in as much danger as it's ever been.
While I'm sure Putin get no end of enjoyment from the left wing media in America undermining the President and boosting Putin's prestige, the reality is Putin needs an American President like Obama, who will simply go along with whatever Putin wants.
yes, the media undermines the president by telling the truth. How mean of them.
Had Russia "found" something about Biden in Burisma's emails, would Trump reject it and excoriate Russia for the illegality and dishonesty of the hacking? LOL. He would be blasting the finding out over tv and twitter.
He appreciates everything Russia has done for him, but most importantly, wants more.
While I think it's kind of amazing to laud the work of career government officials in the wake of the FISA scandal, we are talking about the report of a private company here.
Have you flushed the Mueller report down the memory hole so quickly? Remember all those promises you and the media made about all the secret evidence Mueller had that Russia and Trump colluded?
Whoops! Now the left wants to pretend it never spent three years fraudulently claiming Trump was working for Putin.
He would be blasting the finding out over tv and twitter.
Of course he would. Just like every Democrat would do the same if Iran or Russia or North Korea found information that damaged Trump politically. You remember the last Democratic candidate paid for information from Putin's cronies to use in the 2016 campaign, right?
appreciates everything Russia has done for him, but most importantly, wants more.
But the issue is what he has he done for Russia, and the answer is a lot of sanctions. The thing the left forgets is reality isn't twitter memes shared in an echo chamber of Trump servicing Putin, it's sanctions on a pipeline that damage the Russian economy. You can't wish a conspiracy between Trump and Putin into existence no matter how hard you try.
There was yet another conviction from the Mueller report - someone named Nader. He was mentioned in the Mueller report 100 times.
He was a connection between Putin and tRump.
They just listened to what the Trump toadie Barr said erroneously about the Mueller report. Remember, facts don't appeal to them - that's why they're Trump idolaters.
Nader? The guy charged with funneling illegal donations from a middle east donor to the Clinton campaign in 2016?
He was mentioned in the Mueller report 100 times.
And the only crime he was charged with in relation to the 2016 election was funneling illegal money to Hillary Clinton.
Mueller said there was no coordination or conspiracy between anyone in the Trump campaign and Russia.
You can engage in all the misdirection you want, but that's the actual truth. You should read the Mueller report.
'They just listened to what the Trump toadie Barr said erroneously about the Mueller report. Remember, facts don't appeal to them - that's why they're Trump idolaters.'
Yup, that was Barr's resume.
No, the crime he was charged for was child trafficking/child pornography.
Yes, but he was also indicted for funneling illegal campaign contributions to Hillary Clinton. He was not indicted for anything to do with Trump.
He was indicted for child trafficking/child pornography
Yes, the guy who was indicted for raising illegal funds for Hillary Clinton in 2016 was also indicted for child pornography.
Do you think repeatedly drawing attention to a man who was indicted for illegal fundraising on behalf of Hillary Clinton was also indicted for child pornography somehow hurts Trump?
I tell you what, I 100% support your campaign to make Nader the face of the 2016 Clinton campaign. Good work!
Yes, the Clinton fundraiser was indicted for child trafficking/child pornography.
What don't you understand? Or are you stuck in a logic loop?
He was indicted for child trafficking/child pornography
es, the Clinton fundraiser was indicted for child trafficking/child pornography.
What don't you understand? Or are you stuck in a logic loop?
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No, Nader was indicted for child trafficking/child pornography
I had no idea you blocked me. Why would I care about that? How stupid.
Nader was indicted for child trafficking/child pornography
Let's try again. The key word is AND. AND he was indicted for illegally funneling money to Hillary Clinton. Are you clear on what "AND" means? He's been indicted for two things (which means more than one). He was indicted for child trafficking/pornography and for illegally funneling money to the Clinton campaign! Both things are true! He's both a child trafficker and an illegal contributor to the Clinton campaign. Both are crimes! He been indicted for both!
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Mueller witness George Nader pleads guilty to child sex crime charges
George Nader. Image via CSPAN .
George Nader, a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, pleaded guilty Monday to possessing child pornography and bringing a 14-year-old to the United States for sex, the Washington Post reports .
The backdrop: The Lebanese-American businessman came under scrutiny in the Mueller probe for acting as a conduit between Trump advisers and various Middle Eastern interests, including Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.
Driving the news: Nader pleaded guilty to possessing pornography that was discovered when the Mueller team's agents were looking through his phone. The imagery was handed over to the FBI.
Go deeper: Read excerpts about Nader from the Mueller report
George Nader, a key witness in the Mueller investigation with ties to President Trump, is among eight people indicted on campaign finance charges related to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and others
You seem to be hung up on this while I have no idea what you're talking about.
So you actually read the link, attaboy!
Are you responding to the wrong person? Or do you not remember what happened already? Let's review:
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George Nader, former Trump adviser cited in Mueller report, pleads guilty to child sex crimes
George Nader, a lobbyist linked to President Trump who later became a witness in Robert Muller’s Russia probe, pleaded guilty Monday to two sex crimes involving children.
Nader, 60, admitted he arranged to transport a 14-year-old boy from Europe to Dulles International Airport for illegal sexual conduct in early 2000, federal prosecutors in Virginia said .
He also admitted he possessed child pornography while he was in New York in 2012.
The crimes took place years before Nader, who has dual American and Lebanese citizenship, became an informal conduit between Trump’s administration and officials in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Russia.
Nader will serve a minimum 10-year sentence for the crimes and could get up to a 50 years at his April 10 sentencing, prosecutors said.
He was arrested on the charges at JFK Airport in June . A criminal complaint said he had a cell phone containing a dozen child porn videos, some showing minors involved in sex acts with goats.
His defense lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily News.
Nader pleaded guilty to similar charges in 1991. That case involved two reels of child pornography smuggled into Dulles in candy tins.
During his time as an informal Trump policy adviser, Nader reportedly attended meetings with Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn.
He also helped coordinate the controversial January 2017 meeting in the Seychelles between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian government official linked to President Vladimir Putin.
His cooperation with the Russia investigation was cited multiple times in the Mueller report.
No, tRump is Putin's bitch and so is Moscow Mitch.
The Russians own them.
The "people who won't accept any facts but jump on any conspiracy theory that supports what they wish were true" sticking together ringing true.
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.