What geek doesn’t like a good conspiracy theory? Well, I’ve got one for you – a follow-the-money chain that leads from the head of Russian state to an app that is installed on millions of personal phones.
Twitter announced Thursday that it deleted more than 170,000 accounts tied to the Chinese government. The accounts were pushing narratives around the Hong Kong protests and Covid-19 that Twitter considered deceptive. Twitter is officially blocked in China. Many of the accounts had only been set up this year and were classified in two categories. 23,750…
The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a division of the Russian military intelligence service, have been attacking email servers running the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA). Also known as “Sandworm,” this group has been hacking Exim servers since August 2019 by exploiting a critical…
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence examined Russia’s attempts to gain influence in the American political system during the 2016 elections. The Committee’s investigation totaled more than three years of investigative activity, more than 200 witness interviews, and more than a million pages of reviewed documents. All five volumes total more than 1300 pages.
On March 22, 2019, Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded his investigation of matters related to Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and submitted his confidential report to me pursuant to Department of Justice regulations.As I said during my Senate confirmation hearing and since, I am committed to ensuring the greatest possible degree…
The District of Columbia indicted 11 Russians for crimes against the United States. I reviewed the indictments and came up with the following items I found most interesting (or at least, thought provoking).
News erupted this week proclaiming the enigmatic hacker, Guccifer 2.0, accidentally dropped his VPN connection, revealing his secret identity. According to Daily Beast, his true IP address was revealed while he visited a social media site – and it tracked directly to Russia’s GRU headquarters. That’s akin to Batman forgetting to put on his mask…
Russian hackers are basking in a lot of cred from their recent hacks against US government institutions. In most cases, their most successful attempts where made via spear phishing attacks. Here’s what a Russian targeted spear phishing email attack looks like.
Here it is. Released by House, below is the complete list of 2,752 now-deactivated Twitter accounts suspected of being Russian bots used to impact the 2016 US Presidential election. user id handle 905874659358453760 10_gop 2528776985 1488reasons 2535564756 1D_Nicole_ 79793901 1DRussianFNDM 1860330774 1Erik_Lee 838742761515991041 1lorenafava1 2537164155 2lauragibson 823484279787294720 2ndHalfOnion 80712878 2oliverbaker 80723578 30ToMarsFandom 3644473036 459Jisalge 2261091126…
Trying to figure out the Trump RussiaGate fiasco is like unraveling backlashed fishing line. I started with the above plotmap and nearly threw up my hands in despair. And to think, it all ties back to poor old Sergei Magnitsky.
