Guccifer2.0 identified as an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU)

[AnGrYcRoW]

He missed the insinuation of his gif exactly like a bot would...

I left it at that , it was perfect lol

 

[Rational Poster]

The messenger doesn't change the content.. Btw.

Sure it does.

Have you ever played the telephone game?

Have you ever played the telephone game with Russian psyops running interference?

 

[WTF2008]

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.


Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. It’s an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRU tradecraft.

That forensic determination has substantial implications for the criminal probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. The Daily Beast has learned that the special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller, has taken over the probe into Guccifer and brought the FBI agents who worked to track the persona onto his team.

While it’s unclear what Mueller plans to do with Guccifer, his last round of indictments charged 13 Russians tied to the Internet Research Agency troll farm with a conspiracy “for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.” It was Mueller’s first move establishing Russian interference in the election within a criminal context, but it stopped short of directly implicating the Putin regime.

Mueller’s office declined to comment for this story. But the attribution of Guccifer 2.0 as an officer of Russia’s largest foreign intelligence agency would cross the Kremlin threshold—and move the investigation closer to Trump himself.

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Guccifer 2.0 sprang into existence on June 15, 2016, hours after a report by a computer security firm forensically tied Russia to an intrusion at the Democratic National Committee. In a series of blog posts and tweets over the following seven months—conspicuously ending right as Trump took office and not resuming—the Guccifer persona published a smattering of the DNC documents while gamely projecting an image as an independent Romanian hacktivist who’d breached the DNC on a lark. As Stone’s Breitbart piece demonstrated, Guccifer provided Moscow with a counter-narrative for the election interference.

Guccifer famously pretended to be a “lone hacker” who perpetrated the digital DNC break-in. From the outset, few believed it. Motherboard conducted a devastating interview with Guccifer that exploded the account’s claims of being a native Romanian speaker. Based on forensic clues in some of Guccifer’s leaks, and other evidence, a consensus quickly formed among security experts that Guccifer was completely notional.

“Almost immediately various cyber security companies and individuals were skeptical of Guccifer 2.0 and the backstory that he had generated for himself,” said Kyle Ehmke, an intelligence researcher at the cyber security firm ThreatConnect. “We started seeing these inconsistencies that led back to the idea that he was created hastily… by the individual or individuals that affected the DNC compromise.”

Proving that link definitively was harder. Ehmke led an investigation at ThreatConnect that tried to track down Guccifer from the metadata in his emails. But the trail always ended at the same data center in France. Ehmke eventually uncovered that Guccifer was connecting through an anonymizing service called Elite VPN, a virtual private networking service that had an exit point in France but was headquartered in Russia.

But on one occasion, The Daily Beast has learned, Guccifer failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company, according to a source familiar with the government’s Guccifer investigation. Twitter and WordPress were Guccifer 2.0’s favored outlets. Neither company would comment for this story, and Guccifer did not respond to a direct message on Twitter.

Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow. (The Daily Beast’s sources did not disclose which particular officer worked as Guccifer.)
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Fo' sho'.
When's your next Trump is actually Putin thread?

My favorite part was when the super Russian hacker that forced everyone to vote for Trump forgot to use vpn and an unnamed social media company got him lol.

 

[Amerikuracana]

Sure it does.

Have you ever played the telephone game?

Have you ever played the telephone game with Russian psyops running interference?

No. In a voting situation, it should perhaps lower the impact the message has on your future decision, based on not receiving potentially damaging information about the other side, but no.. What they said and what they were doing remains the same.

 

[Rational Poster]

No. In a voting situation, it should perhaps lower the impact the message has on your future decision, based on not receiving potentially damaging information about the other side, but no.. What they said and what they were doing remains the same.

It's hilarious that you're willing to take what an adversarial intelligence agency releases at face value just because you want to believe it's true.

You're willing to admit that they've stolen information from basically everyone, but not able to admit they're not releasing any information with your interests in mind.

 

[Amerikuracana]

It's hilarious that you're willing to take what an adversarial intelligence agency releases at face value just because you want to believe it's true.

Nothing was denied you turd. Of course the emails were real. You're a partisan hack thinker not even using your own brain, get away from me lol.

 

[Rational Poster]

Nothing was denied you turd. Of course the emails were real. You're a partisan hack thinker not even using your own brain, get away from me lol.

I'm actually using my brain quite well right now.

Nothing was denied or confirmed. That's how intelligence agencies handle active measures from their adversary.

Russian intelligence is letting out exactly what they want out. It's not the whole picture, just the picture they want you to see.

Can you not understand that?

 

[Amerikuracana]

I'm actually using my brain quite well right now.

Nothing was denied or confirmed. That's how intelligence agencies handle active measures from their adversary.

Russian intelligence is letting out exactly what they want out. It's not the whole picture, just the picture they want you to see.

Can you not understand that?

There was CNN collusion with Hillary, and the dnc wanted Bernie out. Those things were bad. Having ANY agency, foreign or otherwise, picking and choosing what information people get to influence elections is bad. So the hack was more bad than good, aaaaand so are CNN and fox news based on the same criteria.