BBC reports:
When Russia's most notorious hackers hired servers from a UK-registered company, they left a trove of clues behind, the BBC has discovered. The hackers used the computers to attack the German parliament, hijack traffic meant for a Nigerian government website and target Apple devices.At this point, little is known as to why Crookservers was later moved to Pakistan.
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The group played a key role in 2016's attack on the US's Democratic National Committee (DNC), according to security experts. Indeed an internet protocol (IP) address that once belonged to a dedicated server hired via Crookservers was discovered in malicious code used in the breach.
But after a short period, the listing switched to Pakistan. The BBC has seen no evidence the shop or its employees knew how the address was being used or that Crookservers had any real connection to the newsagent's. [...]
The BBC identified Crookservers's operator as Usman Ashraf.
Ashraf refused to participate in a telephone interview with the BBC, instead writing via email that the hackers were eventually banned from using Crookservers.
"We never know how a client is using the server," Ashraf claimed.
In November, WikiLeaks released 'Vault 8,' a series of documents detailing how the CIA developed code to impersonate Russian anti-virus giant 'Kaspersky Labs.' The mainstream media refuses to include WikiLeaks' findings in its reporting on alleged Russian hackers breaching the DNC's network.
RT reports:
WikiLeaks says it has published the source code for the CIA hacking tool 'Hive,' which indicates that the agency-operated malware could mask itself under fake certificates and impersonate public companies, namely Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.As The Gateway Pundit's Carter Brown previously reported, WikiLeaks published over 600 more files back in March claiming to show the CIA used extensive measures to hide its hacking attacks and make it look like Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran carried out the attacks.
The CIA multi-platform hacking suite 'Hive' was able to impersonate existing entities to conceal suspicious traffic from the user being spied on, the source code of the malicious program indicates, WikiLeaks said on Thursday.
The extraction of information would therefore be misattributed to an impersonated company, and at least three examples in the code show that Hive is able to impersonate Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab, WikiLeaks stated.
The Vault 7 tranche of files and code WikiLeaks continues to drop gives us a better look at what the CIA's 'Marble' software is and how it carries out its attacks. The code traverses a number of languages from Arabic to Chinese, to Korean, Farsi (the language of the Iranians), and Russian.
The US has lost Pakistan as puppet regime that allows anything to happen in their homeland. See for instance they are building a wall with Afghanistan. A place in which Russia stated contains a large terrorist group (10000), that are preparing for the next campaign. Maybe Pakistan do not want that group to enter the country (so a wall is needed). A Military General for the Pakistan Air Force also stated that they are now targeting US drones. One assumes to avoid more accidents in which civilians die to unjustified US actions. Turkey, another allied country, is being lost as now considers to exit the Nato Alliance. See Saudi Arabia has also perceived some potential sparks against them. As the US threatened to show 28 pages missing from the report on the attacks on 9-11. Saudi Arabia responded by threatening to dump all US dollars and treasuries and bonds and start selling oil in another currency. One event that is an ideal trigger to cause a global economic collapse, one without the dollar. The alleged 28 pages, not to be released to the public, maybe linking the attackers to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan secret services. One can speculate that these links might have been used to put pressure on those countries. It seems they have been played by other secret services. The public will not know for as long as those countries follow the agenda of war against Iran. Apparently Saudi Arabia is still on board with the agenda. After an abrupt soft-coup to ensure control of those members of the family not aligned with the plans. Even Qatar after financing moderate rebel fighters in Syria, now openly admits it. As part of a large group interaction, with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, all directed by US handlers. ยฟWhy revealing so distressful news now? I speculate here, maybe because they rejected continuing with the agenda. That sets Iran as the next target. Qatar and Iran are very close. Even sharing some natural resources under the sea. I suspect Qatar understood that starting a war would mean they will be the first to fall. So the puppets start to fall apart of the alliance, like a house of cards. The horizon does not look good for peace.
Returning to the Sott article. It seems to me planting evidence targeting Pakistan is another tool. To put more pressure and eventually to fuel propaganda. To show Pakistan as an enemy of the US state. I admit a lot of speculation on my behalf. But there is so much information to process. Difficult to trace and connect all dots of information. One thing is assured: chaos.