Trump Still Denies Russians Behind Hack of DNC
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/14/2016 08:02 AM
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Both Clinton and Trump received briefings about Russian hacking of the DNC and other organizations prior to Sunday’s debate.
However, Trump had this to say: “I notice, anytime anything wrong happens, they like to say the Russians are – she doesn't know if it's the Russians doing the hacking. Maybe there is no hacking.”
But NBC quoted an intelligence official as saying that “both candidates have all the information they need to be crystal clear,” while noting that "to profess not to know at this point is willful misrepresentation."
There have been a number of breaches in the last few months that the intelligence community have attributed to two Russian groups; Cozy Bear (aka CozyDuke or APT 29) and Fancy Bear (aka Sofacyor APT 28), working separately.
Cozy Bear is likely affiliated with Russia's military intelligence service. Fancy Bear could be a surrogate of the Federal Security Service.
“We've had lots of experience with both of these actors attempting to target our customers in the past and know them well,” wrote Alperovich, who said CrowdStrike's incident response team was called in by the DNC. “In fact, our team considers them some of the best adversaries out of all the numerous nation-state, criminal and hacktivist/terrorist groups we encounter on a daily basis.”
However, Trump continues to question the truthfulness of the claims. Democrats “always blame Russia. And the reason they blame Russia is because they think they're trying to tarnish me with Russia.”
Source: SCMagazine
However, Trump had this to say: “I notice, anytime anything wrong happens, they like to say the Russians are – she doesn't know if it's the Russians doing the hacking. Maybe there is no hacking.” But NBC quoted an intelligence official as saying that “both candidates have all the information they need to be crystal clear,” while noting that "to profess not to know at this point is willful misrepresentation."
There have been a number of breaches in the last few months that the intelligence community have attributed to two Russian groups; Cozy Bear (aka CozyDuke or APT 29) and Fancy Bear (aka Sofacyor APT 28), working separately.
Cozy Bear is likely affiliated with Russia's military intelligence service. Fancy Bear could be a surrogate of the Federal Security Service.
“We've had lots of experience with both of these actors attempting to target our customers in the past and know them well,” wrote Alperovich, who said CrowdStrike's incident response team was called in by the DNC. “In fact, our team considers them some of the best adversaries out of all the numerous nation-state, criminal and hacktivist/terrorist groups we encounter on a daily basis.”
However, Trump continues to question the truthfulness of the claims. Democrats “always blame Russia. And the reason they blame Russia is because they think they're trying to tarnish me with Russia.”
Source: SCMagazine
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