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Wikileaks: CIA 'Stole' Russian Malware, Uses It to Misdirect Attribution of Cyber Attacks (Hmmm!)

Posted on by Bigtigermike

"Russian" hacking? It could have just as easily been the CIA

Wikileaks: The CIA's hand crafted hacking techniques pose a problem for the agency. Each technique it has created forms a "fingerprint" that can be used by forensic investigators to attribute multiple different attacks to the same entity.

This is analogous to finding the same distinctive knife wound on multiple separate murder victims. The unique wounding style creates suspicion that a single murderer is responsible. As soon one murder in the set is solved then the other murders also find likely attribution.

The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.

With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.

UMBRAGE components cover keyloggers, password collection, webcam capture, data destruction, persistence, privilege escalation, stealth, anti-virus (PSP) avoidance and survey techniques.



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Just saying!



To: Bigtigermike

Kim Dotcom‏Verified account @KimDotcom More Obama told friend who joined my team that he didn't want to end up like JFK. Gave CIA/NSA carte blanche. Obama is no leader @realDonaldTrump



To: Bigtigermike

If I ever wrote a book about the CIA, it would be entitled, “CIA, Above and Outside the Law.”



To: Bigtigermike

Well, yeah. Don’t put anything past the Terrorist in Chief and Soros.



by 4 posted onby bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")

To: RummyChick

OUCH That’s gonna’ leave a mark



by 5 posted onby silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)

To: Bigtigermike

I think the liberals are in for a big Things Aren’t What They Seem lesson... and it’s coming very soon.



To: Bigtigermike

Just saying!

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Are you insinuating ...

I mean really, do you actually believe that ...

There is no way that ...

You gotta be ...

Yawn ... Just getting warmed up for the MSM response to this story. But here at FR - BIG NEWS and justifiably so.



by 7 posted onby InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)

To: Bigtigermike

So it might not be a 12-year old kid hacking on everyone, but the CIA?



To: Bigtigermike

I always said if it was Russia they wouldn’t be stupid enough to leave their own fingerprints on anything.



To: Bigtigermike

I have tried to explain to my brother (who is a moonbat and i call him one) that everything computerized wether wireless or hard wired can be hacked and traced and recorded....he laughs at me because I drive a 71’ International truck ‘all manual’ no computers in it at all...my phone is a flip phone and I do not text or quite honestly do not say anything on it I wouldn’t say to the scumbag politicians I torment continuously . Sure I have had the Capitol police contact me and even the FBI...nothing ever comes of it ...I knew they were scum and here is the proof...in all of it’s “ILLEGAL” beauty...this is going to be fun because Trump will not let this fade ...a tool to purge you might say...



To: mythenjoseph

You are smart!!!



To: Buckeye McFrog

More likely the Israelis leaving Russian fingerprints, after 8 years of Obama, they werent looking for a Hillary Clinton administration.



To: pepsionice

So it might not be a 12-year old kid hacking on everyone, but the CIA? Or a teenager working hacking under contract with the CIA!



by 13 posted onby Grampa Dave ( Obama shredded our constitution with his TrumpTowerGate. Obama is today's Nixon!)

To: Bigtigermike

https://qz.com/860706/russian-hacking-and-the-us-election-why-it-matters-what-it-means-and-whats-next/ “The first evidence of Russian fingerprints in the DNC hacking came not from intelligence agencies but from CrowdStrike, a private cybersecurity firm. Hired by the DNC to examine its computer system, CrowdStrike found the telltale tradecraft methods of two known Russia-linked hackerswhat it calls Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear. It said the two Bears got into not only the DNC, but also the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State Department, and numerous Washington-based think tanks. In the past, the same hackers were found to have infiltrated NATO and other western government computers. Two other cybersecurity firmsMandiant and Fidelisreached similar conclusions. In independent forensic assessments, the 17 US intelligence agencies said the same thing.” The Russians were reported to have hacked our election and to have been so ham-handed that they left fingerprints all over the place. That or Obama’s CIA hacked into everywhere as a false-flag operation to blame it on President Trump - using intentionally obvious fake-Russian techniques that Wikileaks just released, and Obama’s CIA did it for obvious political purposes. We all know how public opinion will divide. Those who worship socialism will blame the Russians they used to love. Those who worship freedom will blame the usurper who lied and cheated in so many other ways over the past eight-plus years.



by 14 posted onby Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")

To: Bigtigermike

This plays into what my now deceased relative used to tell me about weird things going on in the intel world where he spent his career. He said, “When it gets weird and the rumors and stories are flying, you’ll never know what’s really going on.”



by 15 posted onby SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)

To: Bigtigermike

Some are suggesting that perhaps whatever evidence they have of Russian involvement in the DNC hacking was manufactured by the CIA to cover their own hacks based on these reports of them simulating fingerprints of hacks from Russia. But to what end? It sure doesn't seem they support Trump at all so why do something that's harmful to Hillary Clinton, helping Trump. In this scenario, did they think she was a shoe in to win and they wanted to weaken her so she would be manageable (sort of a J. Edgar Hoover move, get some dirt on the Pres and then promise to keep it safely hidden with the implication being "as long as you play ball with me")? I can't see this as a realistic scenario. As a matter of fact I don't believe there is any evidence of Russian hacking anything or we'd have been shown it. If they had it they would rush to a camera to prove it.



To: Bigtigermike

John Brennan given orders from Valerie Jarrett...



by 17 posted onby Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")

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