"The FBI Cyber Division, in coordination with the FBI's Office of Private Sector (OPS), prepared this LIR to inform the private sector about the threat of Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) cyber activities, while tensions with Russia are heightened,"
"RUS has targeted clear def contractors - companies that support the military," the U.S. cyber warfare officer said. "this is a normal tactic and we would expect this to be no different in the pre-hostilities for Ukraine. Specifically, any contractors who support UKR govt & mil."
“Attacks on critical infrastructure are designed to destabilize a country, promote a lack confidence in a country’s leadership, and they threaten the well-being of all its citizens. Russia would absolutely do this as part of their attack play book.” @gridsecure
The Liason Information Report (LIR) is below.👇🏽
Quick assessment as why this matters: these will be Russian backed operations on critical structure adjacent and private contractors who provide services to the US military. It is a continued action that comes dangerously close to an actual attack, risking escalation and response
At some point a cyber attack will escalate out of the cyber domain and result in an actual kinetic response.
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“The views expressed by the U.S. Army Reserve Soldier are hers alone and do not constitute an official statement by the U.S. Army Reserve.” @USArmyReserve spokesperson to me.
I suspect there is more to come in this story. Turns out people want to talk about her and distance themselves from her pro-Putin and anti-US, Biden, and Ukraine statements.
Update: her command, 1st Special Forces Command, has given me the following statement “Tulsi Gabbard’s comments made in her civilian capacity represent her views and not those of 1st Special Forces Command.”
Why do evangelicals like Russia? Russia has a higher abortion rate and few go to church. So maybe it’s Russia’s extreme anti-LGBTQ views or their embrace of authoritarianism? Maybe it’s bc they are an overwhelmingly white country with little diversity? politico.com/magazine/story…
There is this weird belief by evangelicals that Russia has an ideology that is compatible with them. It does not. Russias only goal is the removal of the United States from the world stage, and they will use anyone who helps them achieve that.
“In the same sense that Russia’s [anti-LGBT] laws came about in 2013, we’ve seen similar sorts of laws proposed in Tennessee, for example,”
“Boebert said she received her GED — a high school equivalency diploma — after completing a four-course review.” Not her 4th try, but it sounds like she was given a GED after finishing a review course and not testing. coloradosun.com/2020/09/16/lau…
Favorite quote: “a restaurant related to her Shooters Grill in Rifle served pork sliders that were responsible for sickening 80 people with diarrhea at the 2017 Rifle Rodeo.”
Hearing reports and off-the-record discussions that Lamay, the WA trooper who refused to get vaxxed and told @GovInslee to “kiss his ass” and then contracted COVID, has taken a turn for the worse. Have reached out for official comment from several sources.
A @wastatepatrol spokesperson tells me they have no further information beyond saying “at this point, the only thing we can and should say is that we hold him and his family in our thoughts and prayers during such a sad and difficult time.”
Reached out to @Sessler, who is running for Congress and was recently endorsed by Mike Flynn, for comment. Lamay campaigned with Sessler after leaving the troopers.
Speaking to intelligence and military sources as tensions rise between Russia and the U.S., they worry of an unintended event that could lead to rapid and uncontrolled escalation. newsweek.com/ukraine-war-wi…
Back in 2014 a Russian supplied SAM operated by Russian separatists shot down a civilian airliner. As Russian forces go on alert the risk of a repeat of this climbs. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
While the militaries of both side would not purposefully begin something. It is not hard to see how a Russian commander could mistake an aircraft, in international airspace heading towards them, as an attack. It happened in Iran. newsweek.com/iranians-shot-…
In 2017 @MollyMcKew testified in a Senate hearing on Russian disinfo. Her bio claim she worked for the Moldovan govt. I asked Moldova to confirm McKew’s claim, and they could find no record she’d worked or advised the Moldovan PM or govt.
She testified that she would share her “experiences countering Russian information warfare”, yet she never does. Instead giving opinion without, explaining why her opinion is a qualified one and just rehashing publicly reported things.
there is another problem, McKew has never held a clearance, meaning she’s never had access or worked on classified info - making her claim of exp w Russian disinfo dubious. Another red flag is her lack of academic experience in the discipline - even as she continue to teach.