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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 DeathMonkey on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:15PM (4 children)
the worst-case scenario is that Russia leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks,
And how did they get those emails? That's right, HACKING. It's not a difficult concept.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:37PM (2 children)
None of that has been proven, or even cross examined. Show yer evidence or shut the fuck up! It's not a difficult concept
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:59PM (1 child)
Evidence...
We'll see it at the trial. The FBI is not in the habit of disclosing it's methods and findings while an investigation is ongoing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @02:14PM
Well, maybe you should until the trial before going off with all the wild accusations. Assange says it didn't come from the Russians, and he is a lot more believable than any of the mass media right now. Whether the actual truth comes out in the trial, we may never know. A lot of people would unintentionally get caught in that net, so they won't reveal too much. They will throw somebody under the bus and call it a day. And the democrat/republican party won't lose a single vote over it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @09:33PM
Don't be an idiot. Even though hacking was required to get the DNC emails, describing this as "election hacking" is extremely misleading since it makes many people believe that the vote counts themselves were altered. There was a poll a while back that apparently showed that many democrats believed that the election itself was hacked (like votes being changed from Clinton to Trump). Throwing around phrases like 'The election was hacked!' is supremely misleading and, frankly, dishonest.
Say that cracking was used to get the DNC emails, but don't say that the election was hacked. That is not so difficult to comprehend.