Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Ukrainian hackers leak e-mails, exposing Kreml in charge of east-ukrainian separatists
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/10/26/98933/#arvlbdataIn a case where those who live by hacking may die by it, Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin’s point man on Ukrainian policy, has had his computer hacked by Ukrainian activists who have now posted online two documents detailing on the Kremlin plans to destabilize Ukraine over the next five months.
A Ukrainian hacker group, CyberHunta, said yesterday that it had broken into the email account of Vladimir Surkov, Putin’s chief advisor on Ukraine and was now publishing two documents, one about Surkov’s plans for destabilizing Ukraine in the next three months and a second on forming a Trans-Carpathian “republic.”
...
The first document is 15 pages long and lists a series of steps Russia should take between November 2016 and March 2017 to destabilize Ukraine and provoke new parliamentary and presidential elections. Among the steps listed are talks with Ukrainian opposition parties to organize protests in the form of a “Customs Maidan” in the second half of November.
http://www.unian.info/society/1590351-atlantic-councils-dfrlab-on-surkovleaks-emails-are-authentic.html
"Every message in the .PST database released by 'Cyber Hunta' — 2,337 in total — contains the same type of header information. It is possible that these headers were forged (though it would be fairly difficult to do it convincingly with every email), thus we should also authenticate the data by cross-referencing data points. Often, we can tell when leaked data is fake based on there only being screenshots available, or the majority of the information in the hacks is explosive without boring day-to-day emails. Nearly all genuine hacks have an extremely high 'uninteresting : interesting' ratio. In other words, political officials' inboxes look much like the average person's work inbox: full of boring information, schedules, routine briefings, and with only a handful of incriminating or scandalous emails," DFRLab said. "We can verify nearly every bit of information in Surkov's inbox," it concluded. The emails contain commercial information like Russian owners' stakes in Donbas-based plants and factories, scans of the passports of Surkov and his family members with Schengen visas, insights into the Russian Federation's media interests with lists of loyal journalists, bloggers, and public figures in Ukraine, as well as casualty lists of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), a DPR expense list and a list of nominees for a DPR government. "On May 13, 2014, Surkov was sent a PDF from a worker at the Marshall Group. This organization was founded by Konstantin Malofeev, a quite rich and even more notorious Russian ultra-nationalist who has been accused by the United States and European Union of being a key financer and supporter of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. The attached PDF contained a list of candidates for the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, including the Speaker of the People's Soviet ([Denis] Pushilin), Ministry of Defense (Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin), and other key officials. At the bottom of the document, a note says that the individuals with asterisks next to their name were 'checked by us' and are 'especially recommended.' These individuals included Aleksandr Zakharchenko, who is mentioned as under consideration for the role of Prime Minister. Eventually, this came true, and Zakharchenko was 'elected' to the job," DFRLab wrote.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/25/hacked-putin-aides-emails-detail-alleged-plot-to-destabilize-kiev-surkov-ukraine-leaks/
(subscription only)
Payback is a female dog.
1 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
