The Impeachment Thread

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Orange_Crush said:
The malware was compiled after Crowdstrike started installing software on the servers, and the compiled malware contained two year old IOCs that had been retired by the "Russian" hackers two years earlier. Oh, and the only reason that malware and those IOCs were "known" to be Russian hackers' was that they had been attributed to them during an earlier compromise.

I could write a YARA rule in literally less than 30 seconds that would look for C2 traffic to that IP address. However, I would never waste the time because that IOC would be a part of EVERY IOC intel subscription in existence. In other words, every network of worth would be notifying on outgoing traffic to that IP address, that the network had been hacked.

A script kiddy wouldn't make that mistake, much less an APT. It's like finding Homer Simpson's driver's license at the scene of a museum art burglary and thus attributing the burglary to Homer Simpson. It's just not a mistake the cat burglar would make unless he was trying to frame Homer.
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My thoughts too. Leave bogus info like a retired IP address... From fancy bear(APT29) and call it good...no, but they all point to that as evidence. It's evidence of a frame job.
 
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Weezer said:
And he won because his opponent was Hillary.

You blame Trump solely on the right. What others point out to you is the left didn't do a very good job opposing him by running Hillary. It's a case of both sides are to blame. But your narrow mind doesn't want to acknowledge that your side screwed up. Nope, has to be someone else's fault. A set of events led to Trump becoming POTUS. The GOP is to blame for Trump being their nominee. The Dems are to blame for choosing Hillary as their nominee. The voting public is to blame for Trump becoming President. Everyone has a part of the blame, so continuing to assign it to on side is stupid. I still believe if the Dems had run someone other than Hillary, they most likely would have won in 2016. But for whatever reason, they still refuse to own that.
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I'm sensing deja vu in 2020 with the Democratic candidates offered.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
My thoughts too. Leave bogus info like a retired IP address... From fancy bear(APT29) and call it good...no, but they all point to that as evidence. It's evidence of a frame job.
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It's actually more than that. It appears that an old version of known malware was recycled/installed to point the finger at a certain group. To relate this to a physical forensic investigation, it'd be likened to taking the glove from OJ's trial out of evidence, dropping it at the scene of a murder, and saying that it proves OJ murdered again.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
It's actually more than that. It appears that an old version of known malware was recycled/installed to point the finger at a certain group. To relate this to a physical forensic investigation, it'd be likened to taking the glove from OJ's trial out of evidence, dropping it at the scene of a murder, and saying that it proves OJ murdered again.
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That is a great analogy. Maybe I'm jaded but i don't accept crowdstrike or the fbi as working in America's best interest in this. They have a clear agenda.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
That is a great analogy. Maybe I'm jaded but i don't accept crowdstrike or the fbi as working in America's best interest in this. They have a clear agenda.
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The analyst that fingered Russia had just left the Intel community, gone to work at Crowdstrike, and been called in to investigate the DNC "hack". He admittedly worked almost completely alone on the DNC investigation. And, for all the investigations into Russian collusion, hacking, etc, he's never once been asked to interview with the 3 letter agencies, much less been put under oath.

Think about that for a second.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
The analyst that fingered Russia had just left the Intel community, gone to work at Crowdstrike, and been called in to investigate the DNC "hack". He admittedly worked almost completely alone on the DNC investigation. And, for all the investigations into Russian collusion, hacking, etc, he's never once been asked to interview with the 3 letter agencies, much less been put under oath.

Think about that for a second.
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This. It's been out there for a long time. People built investigations on the fact the DNC was hacked by Russians. They have stated it over and over ad nauseum as if it's fact. It's definitely not.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
This. It's been out there for a long time. People built investigations on the fact the DNC was hacked by Russians. They have stated it over and over ad nauseum as if it's fact. It's definitely not.
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In comparison, the most famous malware hack in history is stuxnet, from 2010, attributed with damaging Iran nuclear equipment. Though there is suspicion as to who did it, it's still never been proven. That's nine years.

They'd fingered Russia for this within hours. Pretty convenient.

(PS: stuxnet had infected a huge amount of machines, but only acted on a very specific hardware combination. That means that the malware code and IOCs have been in public domain for years. With nearly every Cyber security sme worth proverbial salt reverse engineering it, they still haven't proven the perpetrators.

Yet a single investigator fingered a nation state hack, within hours, alone. The federal government never asked for proof and never even interviewed him.)
 
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GVF said:
How bout you do that. I don’t need to. Enjoying the holiday
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Sure, OK I’ll just cite a few

Repeal and replace Obamacare. Nope.

Decrease prescription drug costs. Nope

Build a wall. Nope

Make Mexico pay for that wall. Nope

Make America Great Again. Nope

Restore American Prestige. Hell No. all major foreign leaders think he’s @&$;$& moron

Take down little Rocket Man. Nope. Rocket Man owns Trump

Be transparent. Hell no
 
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Orange_Crush said:
The analyst that fingered Russia had just left the Intel community, gone to work at Crowdstrike, and been called in to investigate the DNC "hack". He admittedly worked almost completely alone on the DNC investigation. And, for all the investigations into Russian collusion, hacking, etc, he's never once been asked to interview with the 3 letter agencies, much less been put under oath.

Think about that for a second.
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link?
 
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...he-dnc-hack-now-hes-telling-his-story-for-the

At 30, Johnston was already an accomplished digital detective who had just left the military’s elite Cyber Command, where he had helped stanch a Russian hack on the US military’s top leadership. Now, working for a private cybersecurity company, he had to brief the DNC — while it was in the middle of a white-knuckle presidential campaign — about what he’d found in the organization’s computer networks
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Despite his central role, Johnston has never talked with investigators probing Russian interference, let alone with the media. But to people dealing with the crisis, “He was indispensable,” as a source close to the DNC put it.
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Johnston was also largely on his own. The party had hired CrowdStrike essentially in place of the FBI — to this day, the Bureau has not had access to the DNC’s servers.
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There you go, champ. Not that you deserved a response, considering how you conduct yourself around here.
 
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