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Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @09:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-knew dept.

"MrPlow" writes:

Submitted via IRC for Teckla

There is increasing evidence linking Russia to the Shadow Brokers leaks, which is "one of the worst security debacles ever to befall American intelligence."

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/experts-link-nsa-leaks-shadow-brokers-russia-kaspersky-144840962.html

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday January 15 2018, @06:16PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 15 2018, @06:16PM (#622653) Journal

    It doesn't take much evidence to make me think probable things that I already consider plausible.

    OTOH, the sources aren't exactly trustworthy, and aren't exactly known for honesty, and I wouldn't say fabricating even more convincing evidence was beyond them. It's not like it's unreasonable to doubt something attributed to "a senior intelligence operative" who declines to be identified. That strikes me as slightly less reliable than gossip.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by cyrano on Monday January 15 2018, @07:19PM

    by cyrano (1034) on Monday January 15 2018, @07:19PM (#622670) Homepage

    2 years ago, the Mirai botnet was said to be Russian and set out to influence US elections and take down US online business. By the same sources as these rumours.

    Today we know the Mirai botnet was started by a couple of American students.

    The first was widely reported by MSM. The second fact was hardly reported at all...

    Evidence, in this case, came from Iraeli sources who openly admitted to being criminals, as they breached Kaspersky's servers. The evidence itself mainly consists of screenshots and text files. Any one of us could fake these easily.

    Are those israelis I can hear laughing?

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