Cheerful Charlie
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https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/22...s-about-russian-hack-of-democratic-party.html
The right wing has been howling that Fusion-GPS and Christipher Steele were tun by the DNC to destroy Trump. Of course the Australians tipped off the US before that. And now it tuns out the Dutch did also. The Dutch hacked into the Russian operations to interfere with the 2016 elections, and apparently tipped off the U.S.. Long before Christopher Steele went to the FBI. Apparently the Dutch did a bang up, thorough job of it. This is going to be a big story in coming weeks and months. Russia caught red handed.
Pop up some popcorn, it's going the be entertaining as hell.
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In the Summer of 2015, Dutch intelligence services were the first to alert their American counterparts about the cyberintrusion of the Democratic National Committee by Cozy Bear, a hacking group believed to be tied to the Russian government. Intelligence hackers from Dutch AIVD (General Intelligence and Security Service) had penetrated the Cozy Bear computer servers as well as a security camera at the entrance of their working space, located in a university building adjacent to the Red Square in Moscow. Over the course of a few months, they saw how the Russians penetrated several U.S. institutions, including the State Department, the White House, and the DNC. On all these occasions, the Dutch alerted the U.S. intelligence services, Dutch tv programme Nieuwsuur and de Volkskrant, a prominent newspaper in The Netherlands, jointly report on Thursday. This account is based on interviews with a dozen political, diplomatic and intelligence sources in The Netherlands and the U.S. with direct knowledge of the matter. None of them wanted to speak on the record, given the classified details of the matter.
Not only had Dutch intelligence penetrated the computer network of the hackers, they also managed to hack a security camera in the corridor. This allowed them to see exactly who entered the hacking room. Information about these individuals was shared with the US intelligence services. Dutch intelligence services consider Cozy Bear an extension of the SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service, which is firmly controlled by President Putin.
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The right wing has been howling that Fusion-GPS and Christipher Steele were tun by the DNC to destroy Trump. Of course the Australians tipped off the US before that. And now it tuns out the Dutch did also. The Dutch hacked into the Russian operations to interfere with the 2016 elections, and apparently tipped off the U.S.. Long before Christopher Steele went to the FBI. Apparently the Dutch did a bang up, thorough job of it. This is going to be a big story in coming weeks and months. Russia caught red handed.
Pop up some popcorn, it's going the be entertaining as hell.
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In the Summer of 2015, Dutch intelligence services were the first to alert their American counterparts about the cyberintrusion of the Democratic National Committee by Cozy Bear, a hacking group believed to be tied to the Russian government. Intelligence hackers from Dutch AIVD (General Intelligence and Security Service) had penetrated the Cozy Bear computer servers as well as a security camera at the entrance of their working space, located in a university building adjacent to the Red Square in Moscow. Over the course of a few months, they saw how the Russians penetrated several U.S. institutions, including the State Department, the White House, and the DNC. On all these occasions, the Dutch alerted the U.S. intelligence services, Dutch tv programme Nieuwsuur and de Volkskrant, a prominent newspaper in The Netherlands, jointly report on Thursday. This account is based on interviews with a dozen political, diplomatic and intelligence sources in The Netherlands and the U.S. with direct knowledge of the matter. None of them wanted to speak on the record, given the classified details of the matter.
Not only had Dutch intelligence penetrated the computer network of the hackers, they also managed to hack a security camera in the corridor. This allowed them to see exactly who entered the hacking room. Information about these individuals was shared with the US intelligence services. Dutch intelligence services consider Cozy Bear an extension of the SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service, which is firmly controlled by President Putin.
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