Russia hacked Wall Street (JP Morgan and others) after sanctions.

[diddle]

Russians hacked J.P. Morgan Chase and at least one other bank in mid-August immediately after the U.S. levied new sanctions on Moscow, according to an FBI probe. The attack resulted in the theft of gigabytes' worth of sensitive data and may be linked to similar recent infiltrations of European banks. People familiar with the case say the FBI suspects the attack was retaliation for the sanctions. Experts say the hackers' ability to move through sophisticated security suggests these were not average criminals—but the hackers left enough of a trail to also suggest the Russian government wasn't involved. The news comes as Russia pushes an invasion of Ukraine. “The Russians typically keep open the options to do something more, and the question now is what would trigger that and what would our response be,” said James Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...n-hacking.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/...e-u-s-son.html

Sad that nationalist pandering is more important than actual geopolitical strategy in Russia.

EDIT: Title is very poorly worded, the Russian government had nothing to do with this.

[Creotor]

You should put that edit on the top of the post, all caps. It'd also be wise to make each word a different color and put in 10-20 emoticons on each side.

What the feck, Kaspersky just blocked me from going to the Bloomberg article, says it's a phishing URL...
edit: Nvm, fine now.

[mmokri]

I think north americans wished it to be true, esp. after 2008 XD

[Nathiest]

Russia pushes an invasion of Ukraine? They're still doing this?

[Mercadi]

Russia pushes an invasion of Ukraine? They're still doing this?

They do it through sending well equipped volunteers (more often than not veterans of latest wars) with the latest information about disposition of Ukrainian forces.
In Ukraine they usually face underequipped, low-morale troops that often don't know what the heck they are fighting for.

[Keyboard Champion]

Russia pushes an invasion of Ukraine? They're still doing this?

Welcome back from your trip to Mars.

[breadisfunny]

You should put that edit on the top of the post, all caps. It'd also be wise to make each word a different color and put in 10-20 emoticons on each side.

What the feck, Kaspersky just blocked me from going to the Bloomberg article, says it's a phishing URL...
edit: Nvm, fine now.

well kaspersky is a russian company so of course they dont want you to know that.

[Deleted]

Anyone fucking with JP Morgan Chase is a winner. What an evil institution. Hopefully good old Jamie Dimon drops off the fucking planet.

[Daethz]

Should be seen as a official attack against America.

[Gumboy]

Should be seen as a official attack against America.

So, any time a "hacker" living in America does anything to do with a foreign company, it should be considered an official attack from the US to that country? The title is basically click-bait, it was not "Russia" that did this, it was a hacker/hackers living IN russia.

[Korgoth]

Should be seen as a official attack against America.

the hackers left enough of a trail to also suggest the Russian government wasn't involved.

Really? Does not seem like it.

It would be nice though if the American hackers would stop targeting PSN, Xbox Live, and Twitch for LOLS and hit some Russian banks.

[Deleted]

It would be nice though if the American hackers would stop targeting PSN, Xbox Live, and Twitch for LOLS and hit some Russian banks.

The people who 'hit' PSN/XB/Twitch aren't hackers (and more precisely people who break into systems are crackers not hackers) but just kids who have found some tools that allow them to use slave machines to bomb a target - some of them know enough to inject spyware/trojan applications to websites/p2p to get more slaves but in general they're part of the "I found LoIC from the Net, I am now a l33t h4xx0r" crowd.