#RUSSIAN HACK OF DNC SERVER DEBUNKED FREE#

But he cautioned: вЂњвЂ¦ weвЂ™re still unpacking precisely what it is, and IвЂ™m sure some of it will remain classified.вЂќ In other words, trust us.Д®d Loomis, a former NSA technical director, believes the suspect list should extend beyond Russia to include China, Iran, and North Korea. In a second piece on Wednesday, Sanger addedВ to the alarm by saying the hack вЂњranks among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times.вЂќ And on Friday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimedВ Russia was вЂњpretty clearlyвЂќ behind the cyber attacks.

media the story has been portrayed as a major crisis brought on by a sinister Russian attack putting the security of the American people at risk. Yet across the vast networks of powerful U.S. So neither the actor, nor the motive, nor the damage done is known for certain. In the absence of firm evidence that damage has been done, this may well be an intrusion into other governmentsвЂ™ networks routinely carried out by intelligence agencies around the world, including, if not chiefly, by the United States. He refers to FireEye, вЂњa computer security firm that first raised the alarm about the Russian campaign after its own systems were pierced.вЂќД«ut later in the same piece, Sanger loses his certainty: вЂњIf the Russia connection is confirmed,вЂќ he writes. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency вЂњhas not said who it thinks is the вЂadvanced persistent threat actorвЂ™ behind the вЂsignificant and ongoingвЂ™ campaign, but many experts are pointing to Russia.вЂќДЄt first Sanger was certain in his piece that Russia was behind the attack. Who conducted the hack is also not certain. вЂњAt this stage, itвЂ™s not clear what the hackers have done beyond accessing top-secret government networks and monitoring data.вЂќ On Friday, five days after the story first broke, in an articleВ misleadingly headlined, вЂњSuspected Russian hack is much worse than first feared,вЂќ NBC News admitted:

вЂњOne government official said it was too soon to tell how damaging the attacks were and how much material was lost.вЂќ вЂњThe motive for the attack on the agency and the Treasury Department remains elusive, two people familiar with the matter said,вЂќ Sanger reported. The motive of the hack is uncertain, as well what damage may have been done.

#RUSSIAN HACK OF DNC SERVER DEBUNKED FREE#

First, Sanger wrote last Sunday that вЂњhackers have had free rein for much of the year, though it is not clear how many email and other systems they chose to enter.вЂќ вЂњgovernment networks, including in the Treasury and Commerce Departments,вЂќ as David Sanger of The New York Times reported.Д«ut plenty of things are uncertain. The official storyВ is Russia hacked into U.S. government.Д®xcept there is (typically) no hard evidence pinning it on Moscow. One wonders whether that would have been the assessment had Trump won. Interestingly, this latest hack story came out a day before the Electoral College formally elected Biden, and after the intelligence community, despite numerous previous warnings, said nothing about Russia interfering in the election. hardliners are clearly still on the rise.

Instead, New Cold Warriors are bent on preventing any such rapprochement with strong support from the intelligence communityвЂ™s mouthpiece media. Both carry the inherent вЂњriskвЂќ of thawing the new Cold War. There are obvious Biden intentions worrying the intelligence agencies, such as renewing the Iran nuclear deal and restarting talks on strategic arms limitation with Russia. T he hyperbolic, evidence-free media reports on the вЂњfresh outbreakвЂќ of the Russian-hacking disease seems an obvious attempt by intelligence to handcuff President-elect Joe Biden into a strong anti-Russian posture as he prepares to enter the White House.Д«iden might well need to be inoculated against the Russophobe fever. Neither the actor, nor the motive, nor the damage done is known for certain in this latest scare story. Above photo: Headquarters of the SVR, Russian foreign intelligence service, which is being blamed for the hack.

Russian hack of dnc server debunked