EXCLUSIVE: "DNC hacker" Guccifer 2.0 was, in fact, an officer of Russia's military intelligence directorate thebea.st/2FXFPAu
In 2016, Guccifer 2.0 posed as a "lone hacker," taking credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen DNC emails. A fleeting but critical slip-up reveals that's not the full story. From @attackerman and @kpoulsen: thebea.st/2FXFPAu
Robert Mueller and FBI agents have taken over the probe into Guccifer as they continue the investigation into potential collusion between Trump and Russia thebea.st/2FXFPAu
"The attribution of Guccifer as an officer of Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency moves the investigation close to the Kremlin—and to Trump himself," @attackerman and @kpoulsen write thebea.st/2FXFPAu
Trump's longtime political adviser, Roger Stone, even admitted to DMing Guccifer on Twitter thebea.st/2FXFPAu
"Almost immediately various cyber security companies and individuals were skeptical of Guccifer 2.0 and the backstory that he had generated for himself" — intelligence researcher Kyle Ehmke, who tried to track down Guccifer using email metadata thebea.st/2FXFPAu
The trail had always ended at the same data center in France. But one day, Guccifer failed to activate his VPN, an anonymizing service. He left behind an IP address based in Moscow thebea.st/2FXFPAu
As a result, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency's headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow thebea.st/2FXFPAu
