French election: Are Russian hackers to blame for Emmanuel Macron's leaked emails?

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Coincidence? I don't think so.

"The huge trove of hacked emails from Emmanuel Macron's campaign had barely been released online when the spotlight immediately fell on Russia hackers. With as much as 9 gigabytes of data from the campaign having been dumped online, instant comparisons were made with the cyber attack on the Democratic National Committee and the chairman of Hillary Clinton's Democratic campaign. US intelligence agencies said in January that Vladimir Putin, Russian President, had ordered those hacks to influence the election on behalf of Donald Trump, her Republican rival who went on to win the US presidency.

The Russian president has repeatedly denied the accusations and this week said "it has never occurred to us to interfere in other countries internal affairs".

While it was not known who was behind the attack on Mr Macron's campaign, which came two days before election day, suspicion immediately fell on Moscow.

“It was to be expected,” Gerard Araud, the French ambassador to Washington, tweeted. “A last-ditch offensive to the benefit of preferred candidate of a foreign government.”

The message, which was later deleted, was clear: Mr Putin's Russia had tried to help Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front candidate.

"For those who thought Russia was dialing back.. Macron's French presidential campaign emails leaked online," former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook tweeted.

Vitali Kremez, director of research with New York-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint, told Reuters his review indicated that APT 28, a group tied to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence directorate, was behind the leak. He cited similarities with US election hacks that have been previously attributed to that group. APT28 last month registered decoy internet addresses to mimic the name of En Marche, which it likely used send tainted emails to hack into the campaign's computers, Mr Kremez said. Those domains include onedrive-en-marche.fr and mail-en-marche.fr.

"If indeed driven by Moscow, this leak appears to be a significant escalation over the previous Russian operations aimed at the U.S. presidential election, expanding the approach and scope of effort from simple espionage efforts towards more direct attempts to sway the outcome," Mr Kremez said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...s-blame-emmanuel-macrons-leaked-emails-could/


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christiefan915 said:
Coincidence? I don't think so.

"The huge trove of hacked emails from Emmanuel Macron's campaign had barely been released online when the spotlight immediately fell on Russia hackers. With as much as 9 gigabytes of data from the campaign having been dumped online, instant comparisons were made with the cyber attack on the Democratic National Committee and the chairman of Hillary Clinton's Democratic campaign. US intelligence agencies said in January that Vladimir Putin, Russian President, had ordered those hacks to influence the election on behalf of Donald Trump, her Republican rival who went on to win the US presidency.

The Russian president has repeatedly denied the accusations and this week said "it has never occurred to us to interfere in other countries internal affairs".

While it was not known who was behind the attack on Mr Macron's campaign, which came two days before election day, suspicion immediately fell on Moscow.

“It was to be expected,” Gerard Araud, the French ambassador to Washington, tweeted. “A last-ditch offensive to the benefit of preferred candidate of a foreign government.”

The message, which was later deleted, was clear: Mr Putin's Russia had tried to help Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front candidate.

"For those who thought Russia was dialing back.. Macron's French presidential campaign emails leaked online," former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook tweeted.

Vitali Kremez, director of research with New York-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint, told Reuters his review indicated that APT 28, a group tied to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence directorate, was behind the leak. He cited similarities with US election hacks that have been previously attributed to that group. APT28 last month registered decoy internet addresses to mimic the name of En Marche, which it likely used send tainted emails to hack into the campaign's computers, Mr Kremez said. Those domains include onedrive-en-marche.fr and mail-en-marche.fr.

"If indeed driven by Moscow, this leak appears to be a significant escalation over the previous Russian operations aimed at the U.S. presidential election, expanding the approach and scope of effort from simple espionage efforts towards more direct attempts to sway the outcome," Mr Kremez said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...s-blame-emmanuel-macrons-leaked-emails-could/


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I saw a poll that indicated over 20 percent of republicans would gladly conspire with a foreign power to help win an American election and defeat democrats.

And I actually think the number could be higher than 20 percent. How many people want to openly admit to treason to a pollster?

Obviously, Putin and the Russian intelligence services have made a calculation that the far rightwing authoritarian nationalist and isolationist parties of the western liberal democracies better serve Russia's geopolitical goals.
 
Cypress said:
I saw a poll that indicated over 20 percent of republicans would gladly conspire with a foreign power to help win an American election and defeat democrats.

And I actually think the number could be higher than 20 percent. How many people want to openly admit to treason to a pollster?

Obviously, Putin and the Russian intelligence services have made a calculation that the far rightwing authoritarian nationalist and isolationist parties of the western liberal democracies better serve Russia's geopolitical goals.
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^ Absolutely. "Russians have targeted... France, Germany and the Netherlands, among other nations, according to experts who testified on the first day of a series of Senate hearings on Russia’s propaganda and intelligence campaign aimed at undermining the 2016 vote."

It's pretty clear Russia wants the far-right to gain a stronghold in Europe.
 
While it was not known who was behind the attack on Mr Macron's campaign, which came two days before election day, suspicion immediately fell on Moscow.

“It was to be expected,” Gerard Araud, the French ambassador to Washington, tweeted. “A last-ditch offensive to the benefit of preferred candidate of a foreign government.”

The message, which was later deleted, was clear: Mr Putin's Russia had tried to help Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front candidate.
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same old assertions.
Fancybear was Russian hackers -ignoring the fact if it was state actors, they wouldn't have been stupid enough to leave footprints.
All of this has been gone over before -it's very easy and self satisfying to blame "Russian state actors" for any hacking.

I am skeptical;knowing the proclivities of the Deep State, and Russiaphobia infecting all of western intelligence agencies.
But what was done here anyway? releasing of Emails is hardly "hacking an election", as these things get label by
the press.
 
christiefan915 said:
Don't know, but I read this on another site: "... the En Marche! campaign in support of candidate Emmanuel Macron confirmed the release and indicated that false documents may have been added to the official ones to sow confusion."
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Looks like they learned from Crooked Hillary, who failed to make similar claims.
 
In other voting issues, the French voting watchdog called on the Interior Ministry late Friday to look into claims by the Le Pen campaign of tampering with ballot papers in a way that favors Macron. The Le Pen campaign said administrators in several regions who receive ballot papers for both candidates have found the Le Pen ballots "systematically torn up."

It said the unidentified hackers accessed staffers' personal and professional emails and leaked campaign finance material and contracts — as well as fake decoy documents — online.
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/0...ron-data-mixed-in-with-fake-news-in-leak.html
 
christiefan915 said:
Maybe false documents were added to Hillary's official ones.
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According to Hillary and our intell. services, Hillary's emails were never hacked....

The Russians are alleged to have hacked DNC emails which had nothing to do with Hillary...and those only proved the corruption of the DNC.

And not even ONE of those DNC emails were claimed to be false....not one.
 
A chronology developed by NBC News from U.S. intelligence sources shows Russia was involved in the following attacks:

  • April - May 2007: Estonia, a tiny Baltic nation that was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1991, angered Moscow by planning to move a Russian World War II memorial and Russian soldiers' graves. Russia retaliating by temporarily disabling Estonia's internet, an especially harsh blow in the world's most internet dependent economy. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack focused on government offices and financial institutions, disrupting communications.
  • June 2008: In a similar attack, Russia punished another former possession in the Baltic. When the Lithuanian government outlawed the display of Soviet symbols, Russian hackers defaced government web pages with hammer-and-sickles and five-pointed stars.
  • August 2008: After Georgia's pro-Western government sent troops into a breakaway republic backed by Moscow, Russian land, sea and air units invaded the country - and Russian hackers attacked Georgia's internet, the first time Russia coordinated military and cyber action. Georgia's internal communications were effectively shut down.
  • January 2009: As part of an effort to persuade the president of Kyrgyzstan to evict an American military base, Russian hackers shut down two of the country's four internet service providers with a DDOS attack. It worked. Kyrgyzstan removed the military base. Subsequently, Kyrgyzstan received $2 billion in aid and loans from the Kremlin.
  • April 2009: After a media outlet in Kazakhstan published a statement by Kazakhstan's president that criticized Russia, a DDOS attack attributed to Russian elements shut down the outlet.
  • August 2009: Russian hackers shut down Twitter and Facebook in Georgia to commemorate the first anniversary of the Russian invasion.
  • May 2014: Three days before Ukraine's presidential election, a Russia-based hacking group, took down the country's election commission in an overnight attack. Even a back-up system was taken down, but Ukrainian computer experts were able to restore the system before election day. Ukrainian police say they arrested hackers who were trying to rig the results. The attack was aimed at creating chaos and hurting the nationalist candidate while helping the pro-Russian candidate. Russia's preferred candidate lost.
  • March 2014: For the second time, the Russian government allegedly coordinated military and cyber action. A DDOS attack 32 times larger than the largest known attack used during Russia's invasion of Georgia disrupted the internet in Ukraine while Russian-armed pro-Russian rebels were seizing control of the Crimea.
  • May 2015: German investigators discovered hackers had penetrated the computer network of the German Bundestag, the most significant hack in German history. The BfV, German's domestic intelligence service, later said Russia was behind the attack and that they were seeking information not just on the workings of the Bundestag, but German leaders and NATO, among others. Security experts said hackers were trying to penetrate the computers of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic party.
  • December 2015: Hackers believed to Russian took over the control center of a Ukrainian power station, locking controllers out of their own systems and eventually leaving 235,000 homes without power.
  • June 2015 - November 2016: In the U.S., Russian hackers penetrated Democratic party computers, and gained access to the personal emails of Democratic officials, which in turn were distributed to the global media by WikiLeaks. Both the CIA and the FBI now believe the intrusions were intended to undermine the election, hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win.
  • October 2015: Security experts believe that the Russian government tried to hack into the Dutch government's computers to pull out a report about the shoot down of Flight MH17 over Ukraine. The Dutch Safety Board headed the investigation of the Malaysia Airlines downing, and concluded that the passenger plane was brought down by a Russian-made missile fired from an area held by pro-Russian rebels.
  • January 2016: A security firm announces that it believes Russian hackers were behind attacks on Finland's Foreign Ministry several years before.
  • December 2016: Earlier this month, BfV head Hans-Georg Maasen warned "There is growing evidence of attempts to influence the federal election next year," referring to German parliamentary elections likely to take place in September 2017. Maasen specifically cited Russia as the source of the attacks, adding, "We expect a further increase in cyber attacks in the run-up to the elections." Experts believe the Russians are trying to damage incumbent Chancellor Merkel, who supported sanctions against Putin's personal associates after Russia annexed Crimea.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ha...s-russian-cyber-attacks-other-nations-n697111
 
Cypress said:
I saw a poll that indicated over 20 percent of republicans would gladly conspire with a foreign power to help win an American election and defeat democrats.

And I actually think the number could be higher than 20 percent. How many people want to openly admit to treason to a pollster?

Obviously, Putin and the Russian intelligence services have made a calculation that the far rightwing authoritarian nationalist and isolationist parties of the western liberal democracies better serve Russia's geopolitical goals.
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What could possibly be better than a good-ole Russian reset? Remember when Obama promised Putin he would be more accommodating after the re-election was over?
 
Chlorate said:
What could possibly be better than a good-ole Russian reset? Remember when Obama promised Putin he would be more accommodating after the re-election was over?
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the re-set that never was.
Obama's dealing with Putin was Obama sticking his head in the ground, while calling Putin out
on his "bad boy slouching"
 
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