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On March 19 of this year, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta received an alarming email that appeared to come from Google.
The email, however, didn't come from the internet giant. It was actually an attempt to hack into his personal account. In fact, the message came from a group of hackers that security researchers, as well as the US government, believe are spies working for the Russian government. At the time, however, Podesta didn't know any of this, and he clicked on the malicious link contained in the email, giving hackers access to his account.
Months later, on October 9, WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of Podesta's hacked emails. Almost everyone immediately pointed the finger at Russia, who is suspected of being behind a long and sophisticated hacking campaign that has the apparent goal of influencing the upcoming US elections. But there was no public evidence proving the same group that targeted the Democratic National Committee was behind the hack on Podesta—until now.
The data linking a group of Russian hackers—known as Fancy Bear, APT28, or Sofacy—to the hack on Podesta is also yet another piece in a growing heap of evidence pointing toward the Kremlin. And it also shows a clear thread between apparently separate and independent leaks that have appeared on a website called DC Leaks, such as that of Colin Powell's emails; and the Podesta leak, which was publicized on WikiLeaks.
All these hacks were done using the same tool: malicious short URLs hidden in fake Gmail messages. And those URLs, according to a security firm that's tracked them for a year, were created with Bitly account linked to a domain under the control of Fancy Bear.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @07:48PM
Oh please. Yours is the logic of conspiracy theories. As a rule intelligence agencies do not lie to the civilian management of the US government. If they do lie, there is a huge stink. If you believe they regularly lie. then you can basically make up your own reality.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday October 21 2016, @08:50PM
As a rule intelligence agencies do not lie to the civilian management of the US government.
Have you lived under a rock for the last... erm... forever?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:20AM
> Have you lived under a rock for the last... erm... forever?
Citations? Because the OP of this sub-thread claims about WMDs have already been debunked in other posts.
I can also point you at the recent case of analysts raising holy hell about what they consider to be manipulation of their reports. [thedailybeast.com] The fact that they are complaining loudly is the huge stink I was referring to, and which you elided from your quote.