Check the number of automated bots controlled from a main set of servers outside the US following Trump twitter account....which then retweeted his tweet to other bots and so on and so on....until traffic volume was extremely high for over one hour.
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Check the number of automated bots controlled from a main set of servers outside the US following Trump twitter account....which then retweeted his tweet to other bots and so on and so on....until traffic volume was extremely high for over one hour.
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A dispatch on the chemistry of information pollution
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/u...-iphone-share#
How Russia finances anti-Western movements in Europe
Wie Russland antiwestliche Bewegungen in Europa finanziert
https://www.zdf.de/politik/frontal-2...skau-100.html#
In German...sorry....
New: excellent blow-by-blow account of APT28 "false flag" sabotage attack on TV5 Monde—and ANSSI's incident response
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article..._4408996.html#
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BREAKING - International far right groups target Germany on @reddit.
The latest in our #SpreadItOnReddit series:
https://medium.com/dfrlab/far-right-...ae-1497186828#
Russian propaganda just can't let it go.
Spin fake news Poland allegedly first to limit #visafree travel for Ukrainians.
RIS trolls are reusing fake avatars too.......large climb in RIS trolls spamming existing anti Trump twitter accounts....has climbed since Comey hearing....
This Russian troll is attempting to guide misdirect ...appears to be actual anti Trump account to get into the twitter threads and then slowly link them to another narrative....
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Russian state sponsored hacking group APT 28 at it again....
Once again, Montenegro was targeted by the Russia-linked hacker group APT28, according to the experts it is just the beginning.
On June 5#Montenegro officially joined NATO#alliance despite the strong opposition from Russian Government that#threatened to retaliate.
Cybersecurity experts believe that a new wave of attacks from the cyberspace will hit the state. In February, for the second time in a few months, Montenegro suffered massive and prolonged cyberattacks against government and media websites.
Researchers at security firm FireEye who analyzed the attacks observed malware and exploits associated with the notorious Russia-linked APT group known as APT28#(aka#Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Strontium, Sofacy, Sednit, and Tsar Team).
Another massive attack hit the#country’s institutions#during October elections,#amid speculation that the Russian Government was involved.
In the last string of attacks, hackers #targeted Montenegro with spear phishing attacks, the malicious messages used weaponized#documents pertaining to a NATO secretary meeting and a visit by a European army unit to Montenegro.
The hackers delivered the#GAMEFISH backdoor#(aka Sednit, Seduploader, JHUHUGIT and Sofacy), a malware that was used only by the APT28 group in past attacks.
According to FireEye, the documents delivered the backdoor via a Flash exploit framework dubbed DealersChoice.
“NATO expansion is often viewed as a security threat by the Russian Federation, and Montenegro’s bid for membership was strongly contested by Russia and the pro-Russia political parties in Montenegro,” Tony Cole, vice president and chief technology officer for global government at FireEye, told journalists today.” reportedEl Reg.
“It’s likely that this activity is a part of APT28’s continued focus on targeting various NATO member states, as well as the organization itself. Russia has strongly opposed Montenegro’s NATO accession process and is likely to continue using cyber capabilities to undermine Montenegro’s smooth integration into the alliance,”
The bait documents first gather information of the target system in an effort to determine which version of Flash Player it is running on the machine, then it connects the C&C server to receive the appropriate Flash exploit. The exploits used in the attacks include the code to trigger the CVE-2015-7645 and CVE-2016-7855, are used to deliver GAMEFISH.
Clearly, APT28’s and other Russian linked APT will continue to target the country such as other NATO member states.
Great article from NOV 2016.....
From Nov. 2016. Trolling for Trump: How Russia Is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy
https://warontherocks.com/2016/11/tr...ur-democracy/#
Info is just as good today as it was in NOV 2016....
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http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Who then rewrote the researchers published in public domain notes....
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MEMRI: Russian Lawmakers: The U.S. Is Waging A 'Dirty' Media War To Influence Russia's Political Process
https://www.memri.org/reports/russia...itical-process
BUT WAIT...VOA and RFE do not have a yearly budget of 1B USDs.....Levin said: "According to the analysis presented, during the two months period ahead of 2016 parliamentarian elections, RFE (also known as Radio Liberty) and VOA in most cases provided negative and one-sided coverage of state authorities and processes initiated by the authorities. Moreover, in some cases there was a massive dissemination of messaging, doubting the democratic nature of the Russian electoral process."
How Russia Targets the U.S. Military
With hacks, pro-Putin trolls and fake news, the Kremlin is ratcheting up its efforts to turn American servicemembers and veterans into a fifth column.
By Ben Schreckinger June 12, 2017
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...ilitary-215247
In the fall of 2013, Veterans Today, a fringe American news site that also offers former service members help finding jobs and paying medical bills, struck up a new partnership. It began posting content from New Eastern Outlook, a geopolitical journal published by the government-chartered Russian Academy of Sciences, and running headlines like “Ukraine’s Ku Klux Klan – NATO’s New Ally.” As the United States confronted Russian ally Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons against Syrian children this spring, the site trumpeted, “Proof: Turkey Did 2013 Sarin Attack and Did This One Too” and “Exclusive: Trump Apologized to Russia for Syria Attack.”
In recent years, intelligence experts say, Russia has dramatically increased its “active measures” — a form of political warfare that includes disinformation, propaganda and compromising leaders with bribes and blackmail — against the United States. Thus far, congressional committees, law enforcement investigations and press scrutiny have focused on Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s successful efforts to disrupt the American political process. But a review of the available evidence and the accounts of Kremlin-watchers make clear that the Russian government is using the same playbook against other pillars of American society, foremost among them the military. Experts warn that effort, which has received far less attention, has the potential to hobble the ability of the armed forces to clearly assess Putin’s intentions and effectively counter future Russian aggression.
Russia has developed a cyber weapon that can disrupt power grids, according to new research
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.f904650e5658
Russian state sponsored hackers have been testing it in a number of power grid hacks in Ukraine and the Baltics....and it have been effective to say the least.....
500 Neo-Nazi Groups In Europe, As Kremlin Claims?
https://www.polygraph.info/a/neo-nazis-/28542294.html …
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The Kremlin’s Newest Hybrid Warfare Asset: #Gangsters
My piece on #Russia's weaponised wrongdoers for @ForeignPolicy
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/12/...erattack-hack/ …
Putin has blurred the line between spies & criminals. We've already seen where that path leads -- and it's awful.
The Return of Frankie and The Iceman
New trials for Balkan war criminals are set to reopen old wounds—and may expose Washington’s secret role
http://observer.com/2017/06/frankie-...war-criminals/
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Last December's blackout in Ukraine was caused by a new form of malware built to automatically sabotage power grids.
https://www.wired.com/story/crash-override-malware
The first in-the-wild malware designed to disrupt physical equipment since Stuxnet was likely created by Russia:
Alarming stat: 41% of people outside of former Soviet Union targeted by Russians in March-Sept 2015 were current or former servicemembers.
I tweeted about this a few days ago. All of a sudden, I'm being "friended" by Russian women. Like 10-12 or so over the last week
Putin's influence operations didn't end with the election. What are our President and Congress doing to protect us?
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Putin Angrily Denounces ‘Anti-Russian Hysteria’ in US
Jamestown Foundation: https://jamestown.org/program/putin-...n-hysteria-us/
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 14 Issue: 76
By: Pavel Felgenhauer
At the annual St. Petersburg Economic Forum last week (June 1–3), President Vladimir Putin repeatedly rejected accusations of Russian covert meddling in the 2016 United States presidential election (see EDM, June 5). Putin defended the Russian ambassador in Washington, Sergei Kislyak, who did apparently meet with different members of President Donald Trump’s team during the election campaign and the transition period. According to Putin, Kislyak was simply doing his job as an ambassador. “Are you totally out of your mind?” seethed Putin, “There is zero evidence [of wrongdoing]. This is some kind of hysteria. You [Americans] cannot stop. Maybe you need some pills? Does anybody have any pills?” (Kremlin.ru, June 2).
The beginning of June 2017 has been marked by an increase in aggressive rhetoric coming from Moscow and by more armed clashes in Donbas and in Syria. According to independent pollster Levada-Tsentr, 69 percent of Russians consider the US an enemy and 50 percent believe Ukraine is an enemy (Levada.ru, June 5). These figures, of course, primarily reflect the effectiveness of Russia’s state-controlled and state-sponsored propaganda. The poll also seems to accurately represent the attitudes dominant in the Kremlin, as evident from Putin’s anti-American outburst at the St. Petersburg Forum (Kremlin.ru, June 2).
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