Malware & other nasty IT / cyber things

[OUTLAW 09]

For the last three months my IT company, together with German partners, @bellingcat, DFLab and tens of twitter users have been literally in a state of open non violent bot army war and believe me they do exist and Russia is extremely good at using them for disinformation, propaganda, spamming and criminal hacking.

This has now reached a certain sophistication that is not normal on the part of Russian intel services so that one can actually use the term open info war fought 24 x 7 X 365 for the heart and soul of a society

Since the Russia infowar thread is closed I will post all links that are available on this thread as it does apply to malware, disinformation and propaganda and hacking all tied into one namely bots.

Enjoy the reading and hopefully one can learn what really Russian infowarfare looks like in the 21st century

https://medium.com/dfrlab/kremlin-an...e-2df4af60c749

https://www.propublica.org/article/p...harlottesville

http://www.moonofalabama.org/

IMPORTANT
https://twitter.com/conspirator0

https://medium.com/dfrlab/german-ele...d-84cc7a8dabd9

https://medium.com/dfrlab/german-ele...d-b218dd6d4b7f

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...oICKOGguA/edit

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...in-bots-215520

https://medium.com/@d1gi/can-electio...t-970d4b4ae430

https://medium.com/@d1gi/who-hacked-...n-43d4019f705f

https://medium.com/@d1gi/election201...s-a6c9281f5ef9

https://medium.com/@d1gi/the-electio...e-383449cc1fba

https://medium.com/dfrlab/from-russi...p-ae6ee4318b5b

.@Twitter bots in action - #Russian #informationwarfare methods designed for "easy exploitation - high impact"
http://bit.ly/2p3b30p

IoT malware clashes in a botnet territory battle
http://www.cio.com/article/3190179/s...y-battle.html#

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...tter-accounts/

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1701.02405:
The “Star Wars” botnet with >350k Twitter bots

https://www.wired.com/story/leaked-a...ville-lawsuits

https://medium.com/dfrlab/botspot-tw...t-aedc7d9c110c

https://twitter.com/DFRLab

https://medium.com/@mentionmapp/fake...a-37a96c518b89

https://medium.com/@Felt/grand-theor...4-abc25d6a8756

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7920181.html

How a Bot Army Probably Got Me Kicked Off Twitter
http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-b...ter&via=mobile

[AdamG]

$20 says the Kremlin just ordered three gross of this product.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/10/...y-surveillance

[AdamG]

Could terrorists hijack an airliner remotely by hacking into its cockpit controls, putting its fate in their hands?
This question is being asked because of the revelation that a team of cyber experts at the Department of Homeland Security successfully hacked into the avionics of a commercial airplane parked at an airport as part of a test.
The problem is that nobody with knowledge of aviation cyber security is sure of how vulnerable airplanes are to such an attack—and some believe that the DHS test has simply added to the confusion and created needless alarm.
A Boeing spokesman told The Daily Beast: “We witnessed the test and can say unequivocally that there was no hack of the airplane’s flight control systems.”
Information about the extent of the test is restricted and there is a strong feeling among hacking experts that the full extent of the threat will remain underestimated—as they claim it has been for years.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/could-...nment-just-did

[AdamG]

$20 says the Kremlin just ordered three gross of this product.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/10/...y-surveillance

You people in the Peanut Gallery thought I was kidding. Anna Chapman's probably already filling out the Amazon . com order page.

A British company has released the first pictures of a ‘smart condom’ which collects very intimate data about the sex life of anyone brave enough to wear it. The device is called the i.Con and can detect STIs as well as sending data about a sex session straight to the wearer’s smartphone.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/28/worlds...l-flop-7116049

[kaur]

For the last three months my IT company, together with German partners, @bellingcat, DFLab and tens of twitter users have been literally in a state of open non violent bot army war and believe me they do exist and Russia is extremely good at using them for disinformation, propaganda, spamming and criminal hacking.

This has now reached a certain sophistication that is not normal on the part of Russian intel services so that one can actually use the term open info war fought 24 x 7 X 365 for the heart and soul of a society

Since the Russia infowar thread is closed I will post all links that are available on this thread as it does apply to malware, disinformation and propaganda and hacking all tied into one namely bots.

Enjoy the reading and hopefully one can learn what really Russian infowarfare looks like in the 21st century

https://medium.com/dfrlab/kremlin-an...e-2df4af60c749

https://www.propublica.org/article/p...harlottesville

http://www.moonofalabama.org/

IMPORTANT
https://twitter.com/conspirator0

https://medium.com/dfrlab/german-ele...d-84cc7a8dabd9

https://medium.com/dfrlab/german-ele...d-b218dd6d4b7f

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...oICKOGguA/edit

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...in-bots-215520

https://medium.com/@d1gi/can-electio...t-970d4b4ae430

https://medium.com/@d1gi/who-hacked-...n-43d4019f705f

https://medium.com/@d1gi/election201...s-a6c9281f5ef9

https://medium.com/@d1gi/the-electio...e-383449cc1fba

https://medium.com/dfrlab/from-russi...p-ae6ee4318b5b

.@Twitter bots in action - #Russian #informationwarfare methods designed for "easy exploitation - high impact"
http://bit.ly/2p3b30p

IoT malware clashes in a botnet territory battle
http://www.cio.com/article/3190179/s...y-battle.html#

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...tter-accounts/

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1701.02405:
The “Star Wars” botnet with >350k Twitter bots

https://www.wired.com/story/leaked-a...ville-lawsuits

https://medium.com/dfrlab/botspot-tw...t-aedc7d9c110c

https://twitter.com/DFRLab

https://medium.com/@mentionmapp/fake...a-37a96c518b89

https://medium.com/@Felt/grand-theor...4-abc25d6a8756

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7920181.html

How a Bot Army Probably Got Me Kicked Off Twitter
http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-b...ter&via=mobile

Is this all connected to this Russian RT translated Kommersant news from 2012?

Third, and probably most important, of the systems is Storm-12 – its task is to automatically spread the necessary information through the blogosphere, as well as “information support of operations with pre-prepared scenarios of influence on mass audience in social networks.”

The first two systems are to be ready by the end of 2012 and the third by 2013.

https://www.rt.com/politics/intellig...ng-social-619/

[kaur]

Comment to my last post. SVR tender timing seems to be directly connected to Putin's 2011. december Bolotnaya and spring 2012 mass protest problem. Putin's people failed to control social-networking platforms. Due to technical and political reasons especially Facebook and Twitter. 2016. US elections show they have found modus operandi.