Collaborate Disseminate
Just to complicate things further, we learned from a New York Times article that Russian military cyber-forces hacked into Ukrainian gas company, Burisma, apparently in an attempt to find incriminating evidence against prior Board member, Hunter Biden,… Continue reading The Burisma Hack … Cyberwar or Not?
Russia is working to interfere in the 2020 presidential election in an effort to get President Donald Trump re-elected, according to a briefing delivered to the House Intelligence Committee last week. According to a report in the The New York Times, the briefing detailed evidence that Moscow is trying to duplicate its efforts during the 2016 presidential elections, where Russia developed a “clear preference” for Trump and sought to “denigrate” the candidacy of the potential Democratic nominee. The briefing, delivered by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s election security lead Shelby Pierson, reportedly upset Trump because he suspected Democratic committee members would use the information against him, according to the Times and The Washington Post. Trump mistakenly thought that the information was supplied exclusively to Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., despite the fact that multiple committee members from both parties were briefed. Trump was so infuriated by the briefing […]
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Hackers linked to the Russian government have been targeting Burisma, a Ukrainian company tied to the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump, with a wide-ranging phishing campaign, according to California-based anti-phishing firm Area 1 Security. The campaign, which started in November, came as Congress was holding hearings tied to efforts by Trump to have Ukrainian President Voldymr Zelenskiy investigate Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who served on the board of Burisma. The hackers, which Area 1 says work on behalf of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate, created fake websites designed to look like legitimate Burisma subsidiary websites and login pages. They then sent Burisma employees emails that looked to be authentic internal company emails with links to illegitimate login pages designed to steal login credentials. The subsidiaries that were mimicked include KUB-Gas LLC, Esko-Pivnich, and CUB Energy Inc., according to the Area 1 report. Although it wasn’t […]
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