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Russians Breached Burisma During Trump Impeachment Probe
Here we go again. Russia hates Biden and wants trump to face a weak candidate
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Hackers believed to be affiliated with Russias military breached the Ukrainian gas company where former Vice President Joe Bidens son had served on the board as it became a focus of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, according to a U.S. cybersecurity firm.
Attempts to hack into Burisma Holdings began last November as Congress was holding hearings on whether Mr. Trump abused his office by pressuring his Ukrainian counterpart to work with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate Mr. Biden and his son Hunter, according to research published Monday by Area 1, a California-based company.
The hacking attempts are ongoing and linked to the Russian military intelligence unit previously known as the GRU, which hacked and leaked Democratic emails during the 2016 presidential election, Area 1 said.
The Russian Embassy in Washington didnt immediately respond to a request for comment. Russia has denied hacking into U.S. elections.
It wasnt known what information the hackers were seeking or what they obtained, the firm said. In at least one instance, the hackers tricked the recipient of a phishing email into sharing login credentials that allowed them access into one of Burismas servers, the company said. Area 1s findings were earlier reported by the New York Times.....
Oren Falkowitz, co-founder of Area 1 and a former National Security Agency official, said the company was 100% confident that Russias military intelligence was responsible for the breach. Mr. Falkowitz said that the company had made a series of disclosures about its findings to U.S. intelligence agencies before its publication of the research Monday. Area 1 wasnt hired to conduct the research.
Mr. Falkowitz said the company discovered evidence of a Russian phishing campaign on New Years Eve and determined in the following days that each of the targets were subsidiaries of Burisma.
Attempts to hack into Burisma Holdings began last November as Congress was holding hearings on whether Mr. Trump abused his office by pressuring his Ukrainian counterpart to work with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate Mr. Biden and his son Hunter, according to research published Monday by Area 1, a California-based company.
The hacking attempts are ongoing and linked to the Russian military intelligence unit previously known as the GRU, which hacked and leaked Democratic emails during the 2016 presidential election, Area 1 said.
The Russian Embassy in Washington didnt immediately respond to a request for comment. Russia has denied hacking into U.S. elections.
It wasnt known what information the hackers were seeking or what they obtained, the firm said. In at least one instance, the hackers tricked the recipient of a phishing email into sharing login credentials that allowed them access into one of Burismas servers, the company said. Area 1s findings were earlier reported by the New York Times.....
Oren Falkowitz, co-founder of Area 1 and a former National Security Agency official, said the company was 100% confident that Russias military intelligence was responsible for the breach. Mr. Falkowitz said that the company had made a series of disclosures about its findings to U.S. intelligence agencies before its publication of the research Monday. Area 1 wasnt hired to conduct the research.
Mr. Falkowitz said the company discovered evidence of a Russian phishing campaign on New Years Eve and determined in the following days that each of the targets were subsidiaries of Burisma.
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Russians Breached Burisma During Trump Impeachment Probe (Original Post)
Gothmog
Jan 2020
OP
They don't need to find anything damaging. They can forge something damaging. Malcolm Nance:
highplainsdem
Jan 2020
#1
This explains why Trump is so hot for Ukraine to re-open it's investigation into Biden.
denverbill
Jan 2020
#2
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)1. They don't need to find anything damaging. They can forge something damaging. Malcolm Nance:
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
denverbill
(11,489 posts)2. This explains why Trump is so hot for Ukraine to re-open it's investigation into Biden.
He can't come right out and say he got hacked documents from the Russians. But if the Russians hacked Burisma and found anything useful to Trump, you can bet your ass Trump knows all about it.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(145,184 posts)3. 'Mueller told us this would keep happening':
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden