"Germany challenges Russia over alleged cyberattacks," -
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge...idUSKBN1801CA#
Macron now suing Le Pen for defamation over Bahamas account comment.
1st solid example of US trolls' efforts filtering into French campaign
"Germany challenges Russia over alleged cyberattacks," -
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge...idUSKBN1801CA#
MORE Russian soft black money hard at work........
Rep. Rohrabacher met last month in Berlin with a former Russian spy the Senate Judiciary thinks may still be one:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/04/politi...on/index.html#
Rohrabacher has been a massive Russian supporter of Russia's annexation of Crimea and has supported Russia actions in eastern Ukraine and has been at the same time highly critical of Ukraine...
Next to Congressman King who is an avowed white nationalist who openly supported the Dutch neo Nazi Wilders and who often retweeted Wilder's tweets one which claimed that only whites were the chosen ethnic group..
King as been as well a strong Putin supporter.
Both have received campaign donations from US lobbyists who have deep contacts to Russian oligarchs...
WHAT is extremely interesting is that I am as well in Berlin and there was no German news mentions of a well known US Congressman in Berlin during this period...almost as if he slid in and out of Berlin not wanting anyone to find out...
Rohrabacher was behind this decision....as hear openly stated that Azor BN is a Nazi group....
U.S. Congress says no aid to Azov Battalion
https://www.unian.info/politics/1907...attalion.html#
…
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How Russia adapted KGB "Active Measures" to cyber operations.
http://fifthdomain.com/2017/03/19/ho...tions-part-i/#
Now it is getting seriously interesting...this twitter account has been extremely active in chasing proRussian twitter trolls....
This is the first time I have seen a social media site use the term "political war".....
Kremlin Trolls CI @KremlinTrolls
Covert Kremlin agents, fake Putin oppo mostly subvert in plain sight, using political warfare tactics to influence, destabilize from within.
Q: #LePen got million$ fr #Russia
A: #Macron camp 'leaking all this damaging one-way stuff’
#FoxNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73bScKBcuIE#
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Why do Russian journalists go along with the Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns? Here’s an insider’s view.
https://codastory.com/disinformation...ource=twitter#
Russian Fake News Operation Seeks to Generate Baltic Opposition to NATO Presence
https://jamestown.org/program/russia...ato-presence/#
Why Russia cultivates foreign fringe groups like the California secessionists:
http://slate.me/2pDAXH5
Marine Le Pen's Russian money trail leads to a drab apartment block on the last stop on the overground after the last metro stop in MoscowOriginally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Identified proRussian troll.....
Seth Abramson
Verified account
#
@SethAbramson
Replying to @DeclarationUSA @TrueFactsStated
There are 1,000+ D.C. reporters who this "source" c/should speak to, all with rolled-up sleeves, and he picks an unverified Twitter account?
Russian propaganda works on the SIX Ds Principle....
Deflect...Distract....Distort....Dismay.....ALL designed to create Doubt and Distrust...
So what is this proRussian tweet attempting to do?
Deflect
Distort
Distract
Doubt
Distrust
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MotherJones carried before the election an article about two servers talking to each other...one in Trump Tower and one in Alpha Bank Moscow
Trump campaign attempt to massively push back and eventually the story died in a common US MSM news cycle and Trump declared it "fake news"...
Then an extremely well know white hat hacker going by JESTER pointed out that it was in fact communicating using iodine xfer messaging.....a little know feature of Linux coding and largely one that is often overlooked in traffic ananlysis
This UK former member of Parliament and a journalist was the first to break a now verified story of the FISA Warrant being issued in the Trump Russian connection investigations...
Now she breaks this story....
Louise Mensch
Verified account
#
@LouiseMensch
Follow
Bad news Team Trump - FBI wuz all up in ur servers reading all ur packet data and yr iodine xfer messaging
Call your lawyers
This indirectly confirms ongoing conversations between Alpha Bank Moscow and someone in Trump Tower.
More info on Russian soft money hard at work...
The mystery behind a Flynn associate’s quiet work for the Trump campaign
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.d0ace6500fdc
Russia has stolen data from German institutions. Decision to use it in elections will be "made in the Kremlin"
http://www.rferl.org/a/germany-russi...28468137.html#
One Russian paper calls Emmanuel Macron a "psycopath"; another says he has "bulging fish eyes".
It's clear who Moscow's backing in this race
Maassen: Intelligence agencies knew which servers used by #Russia's APT10, APT28 & APT29 to hack #Germany
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...cyber-attacks#
Germany going after foreign hackers: "We believe it is necessary...to be able to wipe out these servers"
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I had previously posted a number of comments on this use of proTrump social media sites in support of Le Pen....
Le Pen's team knows all this. @buzzfeedfrance got screenshots of DMs the trolls that game hashtags and FN members
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesth...xm#.obkVNjb1j#
Russian infowar hard at work in the French election......
4chan wants social media chaos. They don't need proof, they just need doubt. They want a headline storm that makes Macron feel suspicious.
4chan users literally make fake thumbnails of articles debunking their own fake news because they know the association is enough.
In the Caymans thread they link to French journalists debunking the story because debunks are a form of engagement
4chan users are tracking every French outlet that covers the Macron rumor. They love that he has to keep denying it.
Redditors are google bombing the phrase "Emmanuel Macron has a secret bank account in the Cayman Islands" by putting it in every comment
And what does Le Pen do with the Caymans story? Comes out and says she has no proof. Doesn't matter. She got a headline out of it.
I covered a different 4chan Macron rumor last week. They don't care if it's not true. They want it debunked. https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesth...wr75Y7#…
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Initial and early security reviews makes this attack the MO of APT 28...a Russian state sponsored hacking/political warfare attack team.....
PARIS (AP) — France's election campaign watchdog is investigating a hacking attack and document leak targeting presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron that his political movement calls a last-ditch bid to disrupt Sunday's tense runoff vote.
Fears of hacking and campaign interference have simmered throughout France's high-stakes, closely watched campaign — and boiled over Friday night as Macron's team said it had been the victim of a "massive and coordinated" hack.
His political movement said the unidentified hackers accessed staffers' personal and professional emails and leaked campaign finance material and contracts — as well as fake decoy documents — online.
The perpetrators remain unknown. While the hack is shaking up the already head spinning campaign, it's unclear whether the document dump would dent Macron's large poll lead over far-right Marine Le Pen going into the vote.
NOTICE the reference to again 4ChannelAnother presidential election, another massive data dump seemingly intended to sabotage a center-left candidate. But in the case of France’s impending runoff, slated for Sunday, the latest leak of emails appears far more slap-dash than the Russian hacks and leaks that plagued Hillary Clinton’s campaign. And in this case, they’re timed to prevent the target of those leaks from even having a chance to respond.
On Friday, a collection of links to torrent files appeared on the anonymous publishing site PasteBin. The 9GB trove purports to be an archive of leaked emails from the party of Emmanuel Macron, the left-leaning candidate currently favored to win France’s impending runoff election against far-right opponent Marine Le Pen.
The latest data dump comes less than 48 hours before France’s election, possibly too late to shift its outcome—at least to the degree that the hacks of the DNC and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta did in the months leading up to the US election. Its timing so close to the runoff could still prove strategic, as French law forbids candidates from speaking publicly for two days ahead of an election. That timing could prevent Macron himself from responding to any scandal that surfaces in the data dump, real or fabricated.
A Well-Timed Hack
In a statement, Macron’s political party confirmed that hackers had compromised it. “The En Marche! party has been the victim of a massive, coordinated act of hacking, in which diverse internal information (mails, documents, accounting, contracts) have been broadcast this evening on social networks,” reads a public statement in French from the Macron campaign. “The files which are circulating were obtained a few weeks ago thanks to the hacking of the professional and personal email accounts of several members of the campaign.”
En Marche’s acknowledgement of the hack doesn’t mean all of the leaked emails themselves are genuine; the party’s statement also warned that among the authentic documents in the leak were “numerous false documents intended to sow doubt and disinformation.”
At a glance, the hacked email haul appears to not be entirely fabricated, says Rob Graham, a security consultant for Errata Security who has downloaded portions of the collection. “It has the structure of real email archives,” Graham says. But he cautions that even if some part of the leak turns out to be genuine, it could easily contain specific forgeries designed to spark scandal.
“Presumably, someone will start pointing out any salacious emails,” Graham adds. “You can bet that someone like WikiLeaks will pick these emails apart and post them individually.”
A Familiar Pattern
Late last month, the security firm Trend Micro noted in a report that the Macron campaign appeared to be a target of the Russian-government-linked hacker group Fancy Bear, also known as Pawn Storm or APT 28. The firm’s researchers found a phishing domain created by the hacker group in March, designed to target the campaign by impersonating the site that En March uses for cloud data storage. At the time, the Macron campaign claimed that that hacking attempts had failed. On Friday morning, users of the anonymous forum 4Chan had also purported to have published evidence of Macron’s tax evasion, though those claims were also unverified, and it’s not clear if they’re connected to the current leak.
In the wake of Russian hackers’ attempt to sway the US election, which remains the subject of two Congressional investigations, the cybersecurity community has warned that the Kremlin may attempt similar tricks to swing elections towards its favored candidates in the French and upcoming German elections, too.
Former British intelligence staffer Matt Tait warned that regardless of what it contains, the simple fact of the data dump achieves certain objectives. “By all means, look through them,” he wrote on Twitter. “But do[so] with your eyes open and knowing that you’re being played for free negative coverage/headlines.”
The Macron campaign compared the hacking directly to the hacker targeting of Clinton campaign. “Intervening in the last hour of an official campaign, this operation clearly seeks to destabilize democracy, as already seen in the United States’ last president campaign,” the statement reads. “We cannot tolerate that the vital interests of democracy are thus endangered.”
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MacronLeaks goal is to foment fractures amongst democracies, break alliances regardless of the victor
GOES to the heart of the Gerasimov doctrine on non linear warfare which drives/supports political warfare....
Many forget that the core of the Putin political war against the "neo liberal West and all it's perceived evils" as embodied by the US is as follows;
1. damage and discredit NATO
2. damage and discredit EU
2. completely disconnect US from Europe, NATO and ME
Putin has only been repeating this mantra since 2006...SO maybe we should just believe that is what is driving him...and forget the rest of the chatter he wants us to hear as it covers up these three geo political goals...
Chart come from this very good article....
Trolling for Trump: How Russia Is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy
Andrew Weisburd, Clint Watts and JM Berger
https://warontherocks.com/2016/11/tr...our-democracy/
November 6, 2016
Trump isn’t the end of Russia’s information war against America. They are just getting started.
In spring 2014, a funny story crossed our social media feeds. A petition on whitehouse.gov called for “sending Alaska back to Russia,” and it quickly amassed tens of thousands of signatures. The media ran a number of amused stories on the event, and it was quickly forgotten.
The petition seemed odd to us, and so we looked at which accounts were promoting it on social media. We discovered that thousands of Russian-language bots had been repetitively tweeting links to the petition for weeks before it caught journalists’ attention.
Those were the days. Now, instead of pranking petitions, Russian influence networks online are interfering with the 2016 U.S. election. Many people, especially Hillary Clinton supporters, believe that Russia is actively trying to put Donald Trump in the White House.
And the evidence is compelling. A range of activities speaks to a Russian connection: the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign officials, hacks surrounding voter rolls and possibly election machines, Putin’s overt praise for Trump, and the curious Kremlin connections of Trump campaign operatives Paul Manafort and Carter Page.
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