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The New York Times reports In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking :
KIEV, Ukraine — The hacker, known only by his online alias "Profexer," kept a low profile. He wrote computer code alone in an apartment and quietly sold his handiwork on the anonymous portion of the internet known as the Dark Web. Last winter, he suddenly went dark entirely.
Profexer's posts, already accessible only to a small band of fellow hackers and cybercriminals looking for software tips, blinked out in January — just days after American intelligence agencies publicly identified a program he had written as one tool used in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
But while Profexer's online persona vanished, a flesh-and-blood person has emerged: a fearful man who the Ukrainian police said turned himself in early this year, and has now become a witness for the F.B.I.
It's an in-depth review of several people, hacking groups, Russian organizations, and delves into hidden sites where malware can be bought and sold. In this case, it is claimed that Profexer wrote a program to exfiltrate information from a hacked machine, made a free copy available, but charged for updates/training. The claim is that Russia made use of his program, among others, and then practiced using it on Ukraine. Images of servers used in Ukraine voting are being reviewed.
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Thursday August 17 2017, @03:28PM (1 child)
I think it is a shame that both weren't hacked so that we could see that, but as it were we were unfortunately only provided the truth about one of our two corrupt parties. What would you prefer us to do, ignore the criminal things included in the emails because "the other side does it too" instead of delivering a sizeable blow to their organization as punishment when we discovered it?
I would love to see the RNC hacked and similar information released. I suppose the fun thing we would see from the RNC is the panic that their goal of getting rid of the outside candidate failed because Trump still won the primaries.
As it is all we had was the DNC going out of its way to stomp out Bernie and give the finger to all of his supporters. I still want to know why paper ballots in Louisiana were +1 in Bernie's favor but electronic was +~5 Hill, when electronic voters should have been stronger Bernie and paper stronger Hill.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @05:30PM
What I find fun is they brought Trump upon themselves. They HYPED the hell out of him right until it was clear he had the RNC nomination. Then turned on him. I watched it in real time.
Pied piper spectacularly blew up in their face. Now They are playing the 'nazi' card to the hilt. Both of these terms are from their leaked emails. That was downloaded at 20MB (not megabit) per second. Either they have a decent network or someone copied it to a USB drive. Which is how wikileaks said they received it.
What is more likely a disgruntled burnout was pissed at how they were cheated or rando russian guy blew it all up?
What is more amazing is people are not mad about what was leaked but that it was leaked at all. That is the sad thing. The shit going on in those emails should get some people in jail or at least an investigation. To pretend these are the people who should be leading us is really stretching the idea that Hillary was a good candidate.
The DNC does not want to face facts. They ran a shitty unlikable candidate (much like the RNC did for Mcain and Romney). For nearly a month she basically did not do anything and costed on the rest of the DNC doing her job. There were tons of people voting against Trump and for the 'hillary I guess' votes. Yet Trump was filling stadiums by himself (and still is). She couldnt fill a gymnasium unless she trotted out some celebrity to draw in a bit of a crowd for her. She was just unlikable. Once the DNC can accept that fact they will figure out why they lost.