Current Very Severe Cyber Attack Against USA by Russia

[xindralol]

Not a chance when the Administration has done absolutely everything in their power to hand wave and ignore what Russia has done. Especially when it benefited them. The sanctions placed on Russia? Still unenforced.

^ this. A direct attack would do more harm than good - with such a weak and naive president Russia can just walk all over us anyway so force isn't necessary to achieve their goals.

[Dmitro]

Why are conspiracy theory threads like this allowed when they're against the rules?

do you want all russian collusion threads closed then?

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No, just the russian bots and brainwashed rednecks.

yep, keep on giving, "the tolerant" left.

"There are our opinions - and ther are wrong opinions"

(people like you make my sig make more sense btw)

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LOL, who do you think you're fooling with this shit?

check every single russian collusion event "spoiler - it all somehow related to london" for example papadupolus (or smth) and Manafort (also London related)

but ye (:

[schwarzkopf]

and Saddam had chemicals or so they said.

US Cert has nothing to do with chemical weaponry dude... lol

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Why are conspiracy theory threads like this allowed when they're against the rules?

US Cert isn't conspiracy... it is the government agency tasked with cyber security and cyber warfare.

[Dmitro]

I've never actually thought somebody here was a Russian bot until now...

Also Britain isn't a monarchy.

it is
it also doesnt have a constitution
and the aristocracy are still all in top 1% of both income and influence (half of oxford are literally barons dukes etc)

but ye, keep being a naive person and thinking that britain is a 100% democracy

[DeltrusDisc]

I'm not american and my shitty country probably deserves to be nuked.

Aha. Which country if I may ask?

[Elim Garak]

Define what "IT Specialists" you're talking about - it's a huge industry. Even saying "IT security specialists" is still covering several million people in the US. Then define what you mean by "best". Is it the person that 'pushes the button' to stop the current attacks? Is it the person that sets up the routing rules to prevent further use of current attacks? Is it the person who oversees these teams? There is no 'best' - it's always a team effort. Finally, the birth nationality of an individual doesn't define what nationality they are now, and there are people from just about every country in the world working in some capacity within IT security in the US (and other countries).

TLDR: You're very, very wrong.

Wow. Such a silly rant.
You know from the context of this thread which IT specialists are those
You know what The Best means
Team Effort is in the plural "all the best"
You also didn't get the joke
No, it's YOUR problem.

[Mormolyce]

yep, keep on giving, "the tolerant" left.

A) I'm not "left".
B) I don't tolerate Russian bots or racists.

[Dmitro]

A) I'm not "left".
B) I don't tolerate Russian bots or racists.

ye, I already got you people, everybody who disagress with you is either a bot or a racist, no other options, just these two, so pretty much they are not even human thus we shouldnt listen to these people!

(classic totalitarian leftie mindset)

[downnola]

ye, I already got you people, everybody who disagress with you is either a bot or a racist, no other options, just these two, so pretty much they are not even human thus we shouldnt listen to these people!

(classic totalitarian leftie mindset)

The main reason people think you're a Russian bot is because the grammar in your posts reads like a Russian, or Eastern European, who speaks imprecise English. That and the fact that most of the things you post are gross caricatures of an American right-winger. I mean we have some folks with some screws loose, don't get me wrong, but your signature and avatar is way too tryhard.

[Elim Garak]

It's not my fault that your subtle sarcasm doesn't translate well into text (I'm assuming you've just explained you were being sarcastic). It's also not my fault you couldn't be bothered to put "/sarcasm" at the end like almost everyone else does. Of course, that's my fault, nothing to do with your inability to communicate around the limitations of the format.

/sarcasm

There's nothing subtle in the word "immigragents"
This format has no limitations, limitations are in the peoples heads
You also used "/sarcasm" wrong.

[Kellorion]

Yuge fake news

[Dmitro]

The main reason people think you're a Russian bot is because the grammar in your posts reads like a Russian, or Eastern European, who speaks imprecise English. That and the fact that most of the things you post are gross caricatures of an American right-winger. I mean we have some folks with some screws loose, don't get me wrong, but your signature and avatar is way too tryhard.

we can have a skype call right now (I guess at the end of that I'll be called a russian southern accent imitator)

[Orbitus]

https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/95960

At this point I trust the Russians more than I do the MSM or deepstate "intel" agencies. I mean, look at who's crying wolf about the Russians. A bunch of communist retards in the DNC.

So, you are gullible then? Got it.

[Independent voter]

"Very Severe Cyber Attack"

Is this still a thing? I'm not seeing it in the news. Chicken Little?

[Mormolyce]

everybody who disagress with you is either a bot or a racist

No, just the bots and racists.

Anyone else getting a weird feeling of deja vu?

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The main reason people think you're a Russian bot is because the grammar in your posts reads like a Russian, or Eastern European, who speaks imprecise English. That and the fact that most of the things you post are gross caricatures of an American right-winger. I mean we have some folks with some screws loose, don't get me wrong, but your signature and avatar is way too tryhard.

But he put U S A in the location field. With spaces, for some reason.

And his avatar is an American flag.

Why hello comrade, I am fellow American just like you! Superbowl Mickey Mouse Coca Cola to you too my friend!

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At this point I trust the Russians more than I do the MSM or deepstate "intel" agencies.

You'd have to have severe brain damage to trust "the Russians", or their various catspaws.

Intelligence agencies aren't "deep state" lol, that's regular state.

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"Very Severe Cyber Attack"

Is this still a thing? I'm not seeing it in the news. Chicken Little?

Is it the same as this?

In a first, U.S. blames Russia for cyber attacks on energy grid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the U.S. power grid, marking the first time the United States has publicly accused Moscow of hacking into American energy infrastructure.

Beginning in March 2016, or possibly earlier, Russian government hackers sought to penetrate multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and manufacturing, according to a U.S. security alert published Thursday.

The Department of Homeland Security and FBI said in the alert that a “multi-stage intrusion campaign by Russian government cyber actors” had targeted the networks of small commercial facilities “where they staged malware, conducted spear phishing, and gained remote access into energy sector networks.” The alert did not name facilities or companies targeted.

The direct condemnation of Moscow represented an escalation in the Trump administration’s attempts to deter Russia’s aggression in cyberspace, after senior U.S. intelligence officials said in recent weeks the Kremlin believes it can launch hacking operations against the West with impunity.

It coincided with a decision Thursday by the U.S. Treasury Department to impose sanctions on 19 Russian people and five groups, including Moscow’s intelligence services, for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and other malicious cyber attacks.

Russia in the past has denied it has tried to hack into other countries’ infrastructure, and vowed on Thursday to retaliate for the new sanctions.

‘UNPRECEDENTED AND EXTRAORDINARY’
U.S. security officials have long warned that the United States may be vulnerable to debilitating cyber attacks from hostile adversaries. It was not clear what impact the attacks had on the firms that were targeted.

But Thursday’s alert provided a link to an analysis by the U.S. cyber security firm Symantec last fall that said a group it had dubbed Dragonfly had targeted energy companies in the United States and Europe and in some cases broke into the core systems that control the companies’ operations.

Malicious email campaigns dating back to late 2015 were used to gain entry into organizations in the United States, Turkey and Switzerland, and likely other countries, Symantec said at the time, though it did not name Russia as the culprit.

The decision by the United States to publicly attribute hacking attempts of American critical infrastructure was “unprecedented and extraordinary,” said Amit Yoran, a former U.S. official who founded DHS’s Computer Emergency Response Team.

“I have never seen anything like this,” said Yoran, now chief executive of the cyber firm Tenable, said.

A White House National Security Council spokesman did not respond when asked what specifically prompted the public blaming of Russia. U.S. officials have historically been reluctant to call out such activity in part because the United States also spies on infrastructure in other parts of the world.

News of the hacking campaign targeting U.S. power companies first surfaced in June in a confidential alert to industry that described attacks on industrial firms, including nuclear plants, but did not attribute blame.

“People sort of suspected Russia was behind it, but today’s statement from the U.S. government carries a lot of weight,” said Ben Read, manager for cyber espionage analysis with cyber security company FireEye Inc.

ENGINEERS TARGETED
The campaign targeted engineers and technical staff with access to industrial controls, suggesting the hackers were interested in disrupting operations, though FireEye has seen no evidence that they actually took that step, Read said.

A former senior DHS official familiar with the government response to the campaign said that Russia’s targeting of infrastructure networks dropped off after the publication in the fall of Symantec’s research and an October government alert, which detailed technical forensics about the hacking attempts but did not name Russia.

The official declined to say whether the campaign was still ongoing or provide specifics on which targets were breached, or how close hackers may have gotten to operational control systems.

“We did not see them cross into the control networks,” DHS cyber security official Rick Driggers told reporters at a dinner on Thursday evening.

Driggers said he was unaware of any cases of control networks being compromised in the United States and that the breaches were limited to business networks. But, he added, “We know that there is intent there.”

It was not clear what Russia’s motive was. Many cyber security experts and former U.S. officials say such behavior is generally espionage-oriented with the potential, if needed, for sabotage.

Russia has shown a willingness to leverage access into energy networks for damaging effect in the past. Kremlin-linked hackers were widely blamed for two attacks on the Ukrainian energy grid in 2015 and 2016, that caused temporary blackouts for hundreds of thousands of customers and were considered first-of-their-kind assaults.

Senator Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, asked the Trump administration earlier this month to provide a threat assessment gauging Russian capabilities to breach the U.S. electric grid.

It was the third time Cantwell and other senators had asked for such a review. The administration has not yet responded, a spokesman for Cantwell’s office said on Thursday.

Last July, there were news reports that the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp, which operates a nuclear plant in Kansas, had been targeted by hackers from an unknown origin.

Spokeswoman Jenny Hageman declined to say at the time if the plant had been hacked but said that there had been no operational impact to the plant because operational computer systems were separate from the corporate network. Hageman on Thursday said the company does not comment on security matters.

John Keeley, a spokesman for the industry group the Nuclear Energy Institute, said: “There has been no successful cyber attack against any U.S. nuclear facility, including Wolf Creek.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1GR2G3

[Mekh]

it is
it also doesnt have a constitution

The first best example of a consitutional monarchy doesn't have a consitution, yeah right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consti...United_Kingdom

You are full of shit and arguing semantics. By the same logic of "there is no single document called 'Constitution'", Germany doesn't have one either.

[BreathTaker]

I do hope they at least pay you.

I do wonder if you can really confirm you think USA are IT noobs.
Just curious if there's at least one persone who's serious about this. Thanks.

[Aggrophobic]

I do wonder if you can really confirm you think USA are IT noobs.
Just curious if there's at least one persone who's serious about this. Thanks.

Is it a well payed job? Do you get like a monthly salary or are you payed per post or something along thoes lines?

[BreathTaker]

Is it a well payed job? Do you get like a monthly salary or are you payed per post or something along thoes lines?

Brainwashed western kid, i got you.

[Deleted]

How do they even know it's really Russia and not someone else using Russian VPNs?