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‘But His Emails!’ — Ukrainian Hackers Hack Hillary Hacker

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Lieutenant Colonel Sergey Aleksandrovich MorgachevConfirms DCLeaks caper was by APT28. Also that APT28 is Russian military unit.

Russian GRU officer Sergey Aleksandrovich Morgachev (pictured) is wanted by the FBI for influencing the 2016 presidential election. And now he’s been doxxed by hackers from Ukraine.

Said hackers ordered him sex toys as a parting gift. In today’s SB Blogwatch, we dil-don’t.

Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention: Faeries on the bus.

Beware Fancy Bears Bearing Gifts

What’s the craic? Raphael Satter reports—“Ukrainian hackers … compromised Russian spy who hacked Democrats”:

“Invasion”
Ukrainian hackers claim to have broken into the emails of a senior Russian military spy wanted by the [FBI] for hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior U.S. Democrats. … A group calling itself Cyber Resistance said it had stolen correspondence from Lt. Col. Sergey Morgachev, who was charged in 2018 with helping organize the hack and leak of emails from the … DNC and the Clinton campaign.
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Morgachev’s inbox could potentially hold insight into Russia’s hacking operations, including the operation against Clinton and the Democrats. … The FBI described him as an officer in Russia’s military spy agency [the] GRU. It said his department was “dedicated to developing and managing malware,” including the “X-Agent” spy software used to hack the DNC.
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Cyber Resistance [is] one of several Ukrainian hacker gangs that have gained international visibility since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year.

Morgachev’s group has previous. Kent Masing has more—“Hackers Hack Russian Intel Officer’s Accounts”:

“Adult toys”
The Ukrainian hacktivist group known as Cyber Resistance … shared Morgachev’s private correspondence with the Ukraine-based volunteer intelligence initiative InformNapalm, which then publicly released the data. … Lt. Col. Sergey Aleksandrovich Morgachev [is] an officer of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU) and the leader of the notorious Russian government-backed hacking group APT28.
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Morgachev’s APT28 … carried out other cyberattacks…

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Jesse Watters spins facts beyond recognition with claims that Hillary Clinton paid to hack and frame Trump

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Fox News host Jesse Watters falsely accused Hillary Clinton of paying hackers to break into former President Donald Trump’s computers and plant fabricated evidence that would frame Trump for collusion with the Russian government.

The elaborate scheme Watters described is a massive distortion of a Feb. 11 court filing that has attracted attention from conservative media in the week after it dropped.

The filing came from special counsel John Durham, selected by former Trump Attorney General William Barr to examine the reasons for the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Special counsel Robert Mueller led the initial investigation that culminated in a report published in 2019.

Watters claimed Durham’s work now implicates Clinton.

“If there was ever any doubt that Clinton was behind the Russia hoax, that’s officially gone,” Watters said on his prime-time show Feb. 14. “Durham’s documents show that Hillary Clinton hired people who hacked into Trump’s home and office computers before and during his presidency, and planted evidence that he colluded with Russia. Yeah. You heard that right.”

“Hillary broke into a presidential candidate’s computer server and a sitting president’s computer server, spying on them,” he went on. “There, her hackers planted evidence, fabricated evidence connecting Trump to Russia, then fed that doctored material to the feds and the media.”

None of what Watters said on that program about an effort to hack and frame Trump with fake evidence is borne out by Durham’s filing, which he cited. The document never even mentioned hacking.

Still, the narrative echoed elsewhere on Fox News, where talk of hacking and an offense “worse than Watergate” stretched across programs, according to TVEyes, a media monitoring service.

The chyrons on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Feb. 14 focused on Hillary Clinton and special counsel John Durham’s investigation. (PolitiFact)

One of the first headlines posted to Fox News’s website inaccurately declared that the Clinton campaign paid to “infiltrate” Trump’s servers. The word “infiltrate” was never used in…

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In terms of spam, Donald Trump is beating Hillary Clinton hands down

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As the U.S. presidential election nears, Donald Trump is emerging as the clear winner — at least when it comes to having his name used in spam messages.

Spammers and cyber attackers are using Trump’s name far more than Hillary Clinton’s in emails pushing get rick quick schemes or phishing for personal information, according to an analysis from Proofpoint.

The security firm scanned the subject line of emails received by its customers in June and July looking for occurrences of “trump” or “clinton,” and found that the Republican nominee appeared in 169 times as many emails as his Democratic opponent.

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FBI, Russia Team Up to Destroy Firefox, Hillary and Apple

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And Russia may release presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails, which were obtained from Romanian hacker “Guccifer.” How far will hacking go, as personal, political, and government privacy may be at stake. The FBI and Apple got into a battle …
mac hacker – BingNews