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Open thread Jan.15, 2020

Dan Crawford | January 15, 2020 6:15 am

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  • run75441 says:
    January 15, 2020 at 2:33 pm

    This has been in the news recently. It is interesting how Republican sponsored Russians are doing the bidding for Trump again.

    Per the Times, the Russian hacking effort, carried out by a military group formerly known as G.R.U., used phishing tactics to crack Burisma systems, sending employees emails that appear to have come from inside the company and setting up fake websites that appear to be sign-in pages for Burisma subsidiaries. As employees fell for the hacking efforts and handed over their sign-in information, Russia was able to gain access to one of Burisma’s servers—echoing the G.R.U.’s previous hacking efforts against the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in 2016. “The attacks were successful,” Area1 co-founder Oren Falkowitz, whose firm detected the attacks, told the Times, adding that the timing on the Russian hacking campaign “mirrors” the DNC and Podesta hacks. “Once again, they are stealing email credentials, in what we can only assume is a repeat of Russian interference in the last election.”

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