Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections

Re:Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections by nl on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:50AM (#13397435)

Those who (reasonably!) question the lack of actual evidence presented by the US intelligence community over the US hacks would do well to read the 2014 FireEye paper on APT28 (the group involved). It's pretty compelling, even if it doesn't address the specific allegations around the election(s). The TL;DR is that there is significant circumstantial evidence that this group is government backed, and also evidence against it being a false flag operation.

Note that the date of the report should provide some protection against allegations it is politically motivated.

See https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2014/10/apt28-a...

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Re:Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections by Natsu on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:54AM (#13397446)

Should also read this, too:

http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/01/dear-obama-from-infosec.ht...

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Re:Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections by nl on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:11AM (#13397479)

Sure, that is all pretty valid criticism of the terrible report the intel groups put out. It doesn't do anything to show the background, which Errata are taking as assumed knowledge. The first paragraph is basically a "we think it's true" and the rest is "that doesn't actually explain anything"

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Re:Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections by Natsu on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:55AM (#13397581)

Right, it's meant as a summary of everything to date. They've covered pretty much everything before.

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Re:Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections by dmix on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:18AM (#13397499)

Honest question: what is the greater cause of this situation we're now in: the five eye's obsession with all things offensive "cyber" over offering even the most primitive defense to industry or Russia ruining the fun by deciding to exploit this overtly rather than just for covert information gathering/polticial advantage like everyone else?

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Re:Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections by nl on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:27AM (#13397521)

Mostly neither (I wouldn't accept the premise of the question), but if one had to choose one I would say the second.

The Podesta hack was a social engineering phishing attack on his Gmail account. Gmail probably has the best security of any email hosting provider, and it's difficult to imagine what capacity any five eyes agency could have helped.

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