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How to Discredit Western Politicians, by the longtime head of East Germany's Foreign Intel service. Seems relevant.
https://twitter.com/ciphersuite/stat...rc=twsrc%5Etfw
BTW...a large majority of those records were not recovered by either German of the Western allied security services when the Wall fell as they were transported in the middle of the night to the Soviet Union.
All falls under the Russian KGB/FSB/SVR term "active measures"......
https://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder...vx#.gdWy1yGjyX
Welcome To The Russian Game: It’s Embarrassing, It’s Dirty, And It Might Be Out Of Control
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
Jul. 25, 2016, at 11:00 p.m.
Miriam Elder
Back in 2010, a series of sex tapes started hitting the internet in Russia. Several members of Russia’s anti-Putin intelligentsia were caught in various states of undress with a woman named Katya, and sometimes with each other, and sometimes with cocaine, and sometimes without. The show was repeated again this spring, when a former prime minister who is now prominent figure in Russia’s embattled opposition was caught in bed with another activist, the whole thing leaked for the world to see.
The tapes landed with a thud — sexual lasciviousness isn’t exactly a shocker in Russia — but left the subjects pretty embarrassed. “Imagine knowing that all those people, everyone you know, have seen this tape,” one of the men, prominent writer Victor Shenderovich, told journalist Julia Ioffe at the time.
This is what the Kremlin excels at — call it kompromat, or black PR, or information warfare. (The terms in Russian are many! It’s kind of like the “Inuit have dozens of words for snow” thing, but with the added bonus of being true.)
The DNC hack appears to be just the latest example — but the boldest Russia has tried in some time, if ever.
The sex tape campaign hit pretty low — Putin has worked hard to marginalize any opposition to him and the people it targeted were largely unknown to those outside of the urban web-savvy elite. Two years ago, the Kremlin aimed higher — leaking a phone call that featured Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland saying “#### the EU” in the midst of hand-wringing over the future of Ukraine. Did the leak turn the tides of the war there and forever damage the transatlantic relationship? No. Did it work to further chip away at goodwill in Europe towards the Obama administration? Without a doubt.
Now comes the hack of the DNC. I could spend the next few paragraphs detailing all the evidence pointing to Russia’s involvement — the investigation by security firm Crowdstrike, first revealed by the Washington Post; the Russian trails found in the hacker who claimed, the day following the story, to have actually carried out the attack; the fact that the personal email of a DNC staffer investigating Trump’s pro-Kremlin aide Paul Manafort was targeted; and even the fact that the emails were leaked via Wikileaks, whose founder had a TV show on Russian state television, criticized the Panama Papers for including Putin in their investigation, and took credit for delivering Ed Snowden to the Kremlin’s doorstep. But that’s all been done a million times over. The Russian thing to do would be to ask, Komu eto vygodno?, which means, Who does this benefit?, and the answer would probably be the same.
Yes, Putin wants Trump in power — wouldn’t you? An anti-internationalist who questions the use of NATO and wants to withdraw from the WTO while pushing for “deals” without thinking about pesky things like “rights” and “freedom.”
But why this hack, and why now?
Because there’s nothing Moscow plays better in than shame — degrading the worth of things by chipping away at them in ways that makes the world an uglier place.
In fact, the hack, published on Wikileaks — coincidentally, of course! — on the eve of the launch of the convention in Philadelphia probably achieved more than Russia could have ever dreamed — the resignation of chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, full domination of the news cycle, an FBI investigation. The Russians, in fact, seemed stunned. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, is known among reporters to always provide a quick turn of phrase even when he had nothing to say. This morning, he refused to comment on allegations of Russian involvement in the hack. State TV is hardly covering it at all.
Maybe the Russians got in over their heads with this one.
The content of the hacked emails — namely, party favoritism of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders — is real and indeed embarrassing, but has been overtaken by what appears to be Russia’s attempted meddling in the US election. Now Russia is the story, and that may not have been part of the plan. But that’s what happens when you jump into an environment you don’t entirely control, with a media you don’t entirely control, which is why Russia wants Trump, who wants to control the media. You see where this is going?
One line keeps running through my head throughout this whole mess — and it applies to Bernie supporters as much as it applies to those who have been warning for years of Russia’s destructive policies both at home and abroad: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
Moscow Brings Its Propaganda War to the United States
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/25/...united-states/ …
My look at growing ties between US hard-right extremists and Kremlin-linked organizations:
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/79686
The Daily Vertical: Ukraine’s Forgotten War
http://www.interpretermag.com/the-da...forgotten-war/ …
BREAKING: White House says #Iran and North Korea launched cyber-attacks on the United States — @intlspectatorOriginally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Trump staffers deeply involved in Russian & Ukrainian politics, says @anneapplebaum.
http://wny.cc/5N5N302Ci3h
This is a very established Russian tactic that's been used multiple times in elections
Unusual similarities are between Yanukovych & Trump also paid for by Russia and Ukrainian corruption monies?
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-26-2016 at 02:01 PM.
Russian info warfare/no linear warfare hard at work......
US and EU Separatist Groups to Gather on Moscow’s Dime
Via @Diplomat_APAC
http://thediplomat.com/2016/07/us-an...-moscows-dime/ …
British & Russian press: Germans hate evil Merkel who forced migrants on them.
Germany: Actually her latest approval rating is 59%.
The current Trump campaign manager....well known by Ukrainians for supporting their former corrupt President
'Manafort’s friends describe his relationship with Yanukovych as a political love connection':
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...ukraine-104263 …
He has never revealed just how much he has earned in the Ukraine even though US tax laws would have forced him to reveal his foreign earnings....THAT is if he actually declared the foreign earnings.....
After Russian special agencies have subverted US elections, Americans might understand Ukraine better. https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/st...89161302183936 …
Turns out Gülenists downed the Russian warplane, the CIA shot down MH17, and Turkey and Russia can be friends again https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/st...50611467931648 …
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-26-2016 at 04:36 PM.
More on the use of the Russian cyber warfare as part of their non linear warfare against the US........
Reference the Russian DNC breach....
https://www.threatconnect.com/guccif...s-lead-russia/
Guccifer 2.0: All Roads Lead to Russia
ThreatConnect follows Guccifer 2.0’s French breadcrumbs back to a Russian VPN Service
Read the full series of posts following the DNC Breach: “Rebooting Watergate: Tapping into the Democratic National Committee”, “Shiny Object? Guccifer 2.0 and the DNC Breach“, “What’s in a Name Server?“, and “Guccifer 2.0: the Man, the Myth, the Legend?“
In our initial Guccifer 2.0 analysis, ThreatConnect highlighted technical and non-technical inconsistencies in the purported DNC hacker’s story as well as a curious theme of French “connections” surrounding various Guccifer 2.0 interactions with the media. We called out these connections as they overlapped, albeit minimally, with FANCY BEAR infrastructure identified in CrowdStrike’s DNC report.
Now, after further investigation, we can confirm that Guccifer 2.0 is using the Russia-based Elite VPN service to communicate and leak documents directly with the media. We reached this conclusion by analyzing the infrastructure associated with an email exchange with Guccifer 2.0 shared with ThreatConnect by Vocativ’s Senior Privacy and Security reporter Kevin Collier. This discovery strengthens our ongoing assessment that Guccifer 2.0 is a Russian propaganda effort and not an independent actor.
Continued........
Conclusion:
ThreatConnect is the first to identify and detail analysis of Guccifer 2.0’s operational infrastructure. In our original hypothesis, we suspected Guccifer 2.0 might be leveraging French infrastructure to communicate with the global media, and we have validated this finding with the help of the media. As more details continue to surface surrounding Guccifer 2.0, we continue to identify heavy traces of Russian activity, from the specific Russian-based VPN service provider, domain registrants, and registrars as well as various discrete events that have circumstantial marks of Russian origins.
As we pointed out in our previous analysis, we conclude Guccifer 2.0 is an apparition created under a hasty Russian D&D campaign, which has clearly evolved into an Active Measures Campaign. Those who are operating under the Guccifer 2.0 Twitter, WordPress and Email communications are likely made up a cadre of non-technical politruk attempting to establish “Guccifer 2.0” as a static fixture on the world stage along the likes of Manning, Assange or Snowden. Their use of Russian VPN services with French infrastructure may shed light on a method Russian intelligence operatives use — domestic services coupled with foreign infrastructure — to help hide their hand and deter any potential attribution to Russia.
Guccifer 2.0 has subsequently claimed responsibility, both publicly and privately, for the 19,000+ DNC emails posted on Wikileaks on 22 July, and it appears that his persona is not fading in the run up to the election. The execution of Guccifer 2.0’s campaign thus far is rife with errors that have allowed us to attribute this persona to Russian-based infrastructure.
Maintaining a ruse of this nature within both the physical and virtual domains requires believable and verifiable events which do not contradict one another. That is not the case here. Our research into Guccifer 2.0’s infrastructure further solidifies our assessment that the persona is a Russia-controlled platform that can act as a censored hacktivist. Moscow determines what Guccifer 2.0 shares and thus can attempt to selectively impact media coverage, and potentially the election, in a way that ultimately benefits their national objectives.
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-26-2016 at 06:57 PM.
Moderator adds
I have moved a number of posts from the Ukraine at War thread to better places: the Russian cyber & infowar and Russian politics threads.
Just whether a new thread is needed for the apparent Russian impact on the forthcoming US elections is a moot point.
davidbfpo
Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-#Trump Americans #Trump2016 #TrumpPence #TrumpPutin2016
http://read.bi/2a9J2yg
"metadata show that the Russian operators apparently edited some documents, and in some cases created new documents" http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all...d-the-dnc-hack …
Hack as well as a disinformation operation....
Kremlin spox denies #Russia behind DNC email leak, says Moscow "at pains" to avoid interference in other's elections. Uh, not exactly true.
BUT WAIT...the so called referendum in Crimea and the interference on the Ukrainian elections so this is another one of the many Russian/Putin lies.....
Russia blasts allegations it hacked the DNC emails as made-up 'horror stories'
http://read.bi/2ae8ujs
I guess the "dishonest" media will just have to make up their own conclusions then
US intel community coming to conclusion that #Russia intel agencies behind hack of #DNC e-mails.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us...ef=europe&_r=0 …
AFTER all the work was done by private companies and social media specialists...now they say something......
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-27-2016 at 02:18 PM.
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