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Undated: DCLeaks
(also known as DC Leaks) is a website that was established in June 2016.
Since its creation, it has been responsible for publishing
leaks of emails belonging to multiple prominent figures in the United States
government and military. Cybersecurity research firms say the site is a front
for the Russian cyber-espionage group
Fancy Bear.
On July 13, 2018, an indictment was made against 12 Russian GRU military
officers; it alleges that DC Leaks is part of a Russian military operation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCLeaks
Undated: Bitcoin
(₿) is a
cryptocurrency, a form of electronic cash.[8]
It is the world's first decentralized
digital currency, and it was designed to work without a
central bank or single administrator.[8]:1[9]:3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
Undated:
"Guccifer 2.0" is a persona operated by
Russian military intelligence (GRU)[1]
which claimed to be the
hacker(s) that hacked into the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer network and then
leaked its documents to the media,[2][3]
the website
WikiLeaks,[4][5][6][7][8]
and a conference event.[9]
Some of the documents Guccifer 2.0 released to the media appear to be forgeries
cobbled together from public information and previous hacks, which had been
salted with disinformation.[10][11][12]
On July 13, 2018,
Special Counsel
Robert Mueller indicted 12 GRU agents for allegedly perpetrating the
cyberattacks.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0
Undated:
IN THE pantheon of Russian intelligence, the KGB is king. It
fills the ranks of cinematic and literary villains, from John Le Carré’s
spymaster Karla to the sleeper agents of “The Americans”, a TV show. But a
different set of spies is now hogging the limelight. The GRU, the intelligence
arm of Russia’s armed forces, has been caught up in almost all the crises
involving the country in recent years, from the annexation of Crimea, to the
downing of a passenger aircraft over Ukraine, to the attempted murder of Sergei
Skripal, a former spy, in Salisbury.
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/09/11/what-is-the-gru
-- 2016 --
June 8:
Russian Government Hackers Launch DCLeaks website
https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/russian-government-hackers-launch-dcleaks-website/
August 11:
Russian Hackers Reportedly Tried “DC Leaks” Site to Leak Emails Before
Moving on to WikiLeaks
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/russian-hackers-tried-dc-leaks-site-for-emails-before-wikileaks.html
August 12:
ThreatConnect Identifies DCLeaks As Another Russian-backed Influence Outlet
https://threatconnect.com/blog/does-a-bear-leak-in-the-woods/
October 6: DC Leaks Website Releases
Hacked Clinton State Department Documents
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/dc-leaks-website-releases-hacked-clinton-state-department-documents/
-- 2017 --
September 7:
The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html
November 7:
FBI leaves US targets of Russian hackers in the dark
The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were
trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for
at least a year that the targets were in the Kremlin’s crosshairs, The
Associated Press has found.
Nearly 80 interviews with Americans targeted by Fancy Bear, a Russian
government-aligned cyberespionage group, turned up only two cases in which the
FBI had provided a heads-up. Even senior policymakers discovered they were
targets only when the AP told them, a situation some described as bizarre and
dispiriting.
The FBI declined to discuss its investigation into Fancy Bear’s spying campaign,
but did provide a statement that said in part: “The FBI routinely notifies
individuals and organizations of potential threat information.”
Three people familiar with the matter — including a current and a former
government official — said the FBI has known for more than a year the details of
Fancy Bear’s attempts to break into Gmail inboxes. A senior FBI official, who
was not authorized to publicly discuss the hacking operation because of its
sensitivity, declined to comment on when it received the target list, but said
the bureau was overwhelmed by the sheer number of attempted hacks.
“It’s a matter of triaging to the best of our ability the volume of the targets
who are out there,” he said.
The AP did its own triage, dedicating two months and a small team of reporters
to go through a hit list of Fancy Bear targets provided by the cybersecurity
firm Secureworks.
Previous AP investigations based on the list have shown how Fancy Bear
worked in close alignment with the Kremlin’s interests to
steal tens of thousands of emails from the Democratic Party . The hacking
campaign disrupted the 2016 U.S. election and cast a shadow over the presidency
of Donald Trump, whom U.S. intelligence agencies say
the hackers were
trying to help . The Russian government has denied interfering in the
American election.
https://www.apnews.com/eb4df4898e334654a28de14dbfa7ab94
-- 2018 --
July 13: Mueller indicts 12 Russian military
officers for election hacking, says DCLeaks & Guccifer 2.0 were Russia intel
https://boingboing.net/2018/07/13/indictment-friday.html
July 13: As Mister Trump and his wife
greeted the Queen of England, a reporter on a hot mic broke the embargo that the
U.S. is indicting 12 Russian military officers with attacks on the 2016 U.S.
Presidential elections, and that Guccifer 2.0 and DC LEAKS were Russian
intelligence missions.
"Both were created and controlled by Russia's GRU," said Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein, announcing the indictments just after noon in Washington on
Friday.
The U.S. Department of Justice is indicting 12 Russian military intelligence
officers, members of Vladimir Putin's government, on charges they hacked
Democratic National Committee servers in the run-up to the 2016 elections.
The news comes just two days before Trump is to sit alone with Vladimir Putin at
the weirdest summit in American presidential history, on Monday.
Vladimir Putin is a former KGB officer.
https://boingboing.net/2018/07/13/indictment-friday.html
July 13: DCLeaks And Russian Hackers: 5 Fast
Facts You Need to Know
The DCLeaks Facebook Page, Registered to an Imaginary Person Named Alice
Donovan, Was Launched in June 2016
... GRU agents also used other pre-existing social media accounts, all
registered to fictitious names, to promote DCLeaks. The indictment says the
fictitious names included “Jason Scott” and Richard Gingrey.”
https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/dcleaks-russian-hackers/
July 13:
How Russian Spies Hid Behind Bitcoin in Hacking Campaign
In early 2016, Russian intelligence officers obtained a new pool of the
virtual currency Bitcoin. They quickly put the digital money to work.
The Russian spies used some of the Bitcoins to pay for the registration of a
website, dcleaks.com, where they would later post emails that had been stolen
from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. When the operatives needed a
computer server to host the dcleaks site, they paid for that with Bitcoins as
well.
The transactions were detailed in
an indictment on Friday from the Justice Department, in which prosecutors
accused 12 Russian operatives of interfering in the 2016 presidential
campaign through a sophisticated hacking scheme.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/technology/bitcoin-russian-hacking.html
July 14: A day after an indictment from
Special Counsel Robert Mueller identified Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks as fronts for
influence campaigns staged by Russian operatives, Twitter has suspended their
accounts.
“The account has been suspended for being connected to a network of accounts
previously suspended for operating in violation of our rules,” a Twitter
spokesman
told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The accounts haven't been used for more than a year.
https://www.scmagazine.com/twitter-suspends-guccifer-20-dcleaks-accounts/article/780820/
July 27: How they did it (and will likely
try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/from-bitly-to-x-agent-how-gru-hackers-targeted-the-2016-presidential-election/3/
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