A PARODY of a Romanian hacker. Skills: Inserting Russian metadata. Subtle weaknesses: competency in Romanian, remembering to adjust timezone settings.
Jun 21, 2020 • 66 tweets • 23 min read
Shawn Henry’s recently declassified HPSCI testimony and @IvanPentchoukov's fantastic recent @EpochTimes piece have once again brought attention to an important question in the Russiagate saga: What sources did the US rely on for attributing the 2016 hacks to Russia?
2/ The answer, of course, is ‘a variety of sources’: the NSA gathered signals intelligence; the CIA received intelligence from human sources inside Russia; the FBI received images and other forensic data from the DNC servers;
Jun 7, 2020 • 30 tweets • 7 min read
Thread! On Friday, June 5th, Crowdstrike updated their blogpost regarding their work for the DNC in order to address questions raised by Shawn Henry’s recently declassified HPSCI testimony.
crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-mid…2/ The update begins by addressing Crowdstrike’s role in investigating the hacks, stating: “CrowdStrike was contacted on April 30, 2016 to respond to a suspected breach. We began our work with the DNC on May 1, 2016, collecting intelligence and analyzing the breach.”
