Trump Putin 2016 Wrote:
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> Evidence clearly indicates that a Russian
> intelligence group was the source of the most
> recent Wikileaks intel dump and was aimed to
> influence the U.S. Presidential election.
>
> A hacking group backed by Russian President
> Vladimir Putin broke into the email system of a
> major U.S. political party. The group stole
> thousands of sensitive messages and then published
> them through an obliging third party in a way that
> was strategically timed to influence the United
> States presidential election. Now open your eyes,
> because that’s what just happened.
>
> Considerable evidence shows that the Wikileaks
> dump of 20,000 DNC emails was an orchestrated act
> by the Russian government, working through
> proxies, to undermine Hillary Clinton’s
> Presidential campaign.
>
> “This has all the hallmarks of tradecraft. The
> only rationale to release such data from the
> Russian bulletproof host was to empower one
> candidate against another. The Cold War is alive
> and well,” Tom Kellermann, the CEO of Strategic
> Cyber Ventures told Defense One.
>
> Here’s the timeline: On June 14, cybersecurity
> company CrowdStrike, under contract with the DNC,
> announced in a blog post that two separate Russian
> intelligence groups had gained access to the DNC
> network. One group, FANCY BEAR or APT 28, gained
> access in April. The other, COZY BEAR, (also
> called Cozy Duke and APT 29) first breached the
> network in the summer of 2015.
>
> Cybersecurity company FireEye first discovered APT
> 29 in 2014 and was quick to point out a clear
> Kremlin connection.
>
> “We suspect the Russian government sponsors the
> group because of the organizations it targets and
> the data it steals. Additionally, APT 29 appeared
> to cease operations on Russian holidays, and their
> work hours seem to align with the UTC +3 time
> zone, which contains cities such as Moscow and St.
> Petersburg,” they wrote in their report on the
> group.
>
> US Government sources said that the group looks
> like it has sponsorship from the Russian
> government due in large part to the level of
> sophistication behind the group’s attacks.