Western Intelligence Hacked Russia's Yandex To Spy On Accounts (reuters.com) 54
Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018 deploying a rare type of malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts, Reuters reported Thursday, citing four people with knowledge of the matter. From the report: The malware, called Regin, is known to be used by the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing alliance of the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the sources said. Intelligence agencies in those countries declined to comment. Western cyberattacks against Russia are seldom acknowledged or spoken about in public. It could not be determined which of the five countries was behind the attack on Yandex, said sources in Russia and elsewhere, three of whom had direct knowledge of the hack. The breach took place between October and November 2018.
Yandex spokesman Ilya Grabovsky acknowledged the incident in a statement to Reuters, but declined to provide further details. "This particular attack was detected at a very early stage by the Yandex security team. It was fully neutralized before any damage was done," he said.
Yandex spokesman Ilya Grabovsky acknowledged the incident in a statement to Reuters, but declined to provide further details. "This particular attack was detected at a very early stage by the Yandex security team. It was fully neutralized before any damage was done," he said.
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My name is smith
That was a slip on your part. Now we know who Anonymous Coward has been all along.
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Hillary had more help helping out than an ancient pyramid builder. CNN, MSNBC, 200,000,000.00 USD from Saudi Arabia, every U.S. alt+Left billionaire. She lost the election because the American people were tired of her sorry ass and her stale Obama policies.
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It's ironic all the objections are preaching to the choir type and not addressing the issues of concern to people who voted for him.
Basically the left's argument is "you are terrible people. Vote for us!"
Sounds intensely personal (Score:2)
I don't know about you, but if someone is going to hack my Yandex they better at least buy me dinner first.
how do we know this happened? (Score:2)
seems kinda sketchy without some sourcing.
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When you're a star, they let you do it. You can just grab them by the Yandex.
did we influence the presidential election (Score:1)
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Why would you give government authority to regulate sexual activity in the first place?
"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."
Re:Putin may well be a US false flag clown. (Score:4, Informative)
You know, I was actually alive when the Soviet Union collapsed. When the central government collapsed after the coupe to remove Gorbachev failed, Yeltsin was pretty much the only significant figure of authority in the Russian SFSR. He pretty much got the job by default. In fact, the West was pretty much taken by surprise. They knew the USSR was in deep trouble; moribund economy, aging leadership and a great deal of internal angst in the Politburo against Gorbachev's attempts to end the Cold War to buy the Soviet government time to stabilize its eroding political and economic capabilities. But no one saw the coupe coming, or how swiftly it would fail.
But let's be blunt here, NATO, and in particular the US, had spent pretty much the entire 1970s and 1980s doing everything it could to undermine Russia, knowing full well that post-Khrushchev it was an empire in eclipse. So yes, in a way, the US engineered the USSR's collapse, insomuch as continuing Truman's Containment strategy, along with refusing to do anything significant to bail out the Soviet economy, would do a significant amount of damage. But mainly the USSR did it to itself, and when it came falling down, and the Red Army commanders simply wouldn't obey their superiors, the game was up, and Yeltsin, as President of the Russian SFSR, really was the only figure of central authority within the borders of Russia itself who could command the Soviet army. So US actions lead to Yeltsin's taking power, but they had nothing to do with how he got to be President of the Russian SFSR.
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along with refusing to do anything significant to bail out the Soviet economy
Ivan, that is really exceptionally presumptuous right there. Poor little Soviet Union, why wouldn't Daddy America give them a bail out? What the fuck? They were a longtime enemy, it seems a bit odd to even contemplate a bailout.
How about this: Play nice for at least 50 years, then we'll reconsider if you're a friend.
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At this point, a quarter century later, I think the West offering Gorbachev some solid commitments on economic aid so that he could have gone back to Russia with something other than vague promises would have been far better than what happened; a near total collapse of the Soviet economy. A lot of chaos was sowed by the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union.
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It makes no sense to blame the west for the coup attempt, which is what brought down the house of cards.
They could have entered some sort of serious negotiations if they wanted solid commitments. Nobody is going to make a solid commitment just to give you a series of handouts over time.
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from what i understand, Putin may have now won re-eleciton because of the hacking
No, he did his the old-fashioned way: Kill, arrest, dissapear anyone who has the temerity to disagree with him.
When you can do that, winning is easy -- all you need to do is what he did.
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Re:did we influence the presidential election
I'm sure they'll get to that point one day. Maybe not too far away. When the do I hope it kicks off a civil war so we can have us a good old-fashioned purge the likes of which would make Stalin blush like a schoolgirl.
For now, Democrats do it their own time-honored way: Raise the dead and recruit as many illegals and felons as they possibly can, offer them a token gesture, and profit.
people with knowledge of the matter (Score:1)
Wow! These people know everything!
How do they do it?
The press, and its audience are like baby birds. Watch how they swallow whatever is puked up.
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In American stores they even sell the Tentacle Monster, you can have anything if you have the money.
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"People with knowledge of the matter" is usually a code for "press release by parties mentioned in the article disguised as investigative journalism".
I.e. "People" in fabula are Yandex staff.
But they can't "provide further details" on an "attack...detected at a very early stage by the Yandex security team [and] fully neutralized before any damage was done" because that would be admission of VARIOUS issues.
Such as how exactly does a supposedly "public company" listed on NASDAQ know so much about specific tac
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They get to talk to the media too, about projects that would normally stay very secret for many decades.
When do people get to reading about the actions of the security services? In 30 to 50 years.
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They get to talk to the media too, about projects that would normally stay very secret for many decades.
And of course, they always tell the truth, right? I mean, why would they lie to the media?
National security risks (Score:3)
Yeah, the USA hacked other countries and at the same time blame, mostly without concrete evidences, others being a national security threats.
What's new?
Re:National security risks (Score:4, Insightful)
So let me get this straight...
US government (or their allies) hacks foreign computers -- that's fine, they're heros!
Foreigner hacks US computers -- *TERRORISTS!!!*
Yep, that sounds pretty balanced to me... just ask Assange what he thinks :-)
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"Israeli murderers are called commandos. Arab commandos are called terrorists." - George Carlin