UK Says Russia Targeted Officials in Email-Hacking Campaign (bloomberg.com) 41
The UK accused Russia's main intelligence agency of seeking to hack the emails of British politicians and officials in an attempt to interfere in its democratic processes. From a report: "They have been targeting high-profile individuals and entities with a clear intent: using information they obtained to meddle in British politics," Foreign Office minister Leo Docherty told the House of Commons on Thursday. The intrusions include targeting personal email accounts and impersonation attempts against universities and media organizations, according to Docherty. Civil servants and journalists have also been targeted by Russia's Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, he said.
In November, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre warned that Russian and other state-sponsored hackers posed an "enduring and significant threat" to the country. The agency said that Russia was one of the most prolific state actors in cybercrime, and had dedicated substantial resources to conducting hacking operations internationally.
In November, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre warned that Russian and other state-sponsored hackers posed an "enduring and significant threat" to the country. The agency said that Russia was one of the most prolific state actors in cybercrime, and had dedicated substantial resources to conducting hacking operations internationally.
Interference Litmus Test. (Score:2)
If every political party in a multi-party democracy is raising concerns about a foreign government interfering, then I'd say you have something external to investigate, with concerns that are probably more factual than political.
If only one political party in a multi-party democracy is raising concerns about a foreign government interfering, then I'd say you have something internal to investigate, with concerns that are probably more political than factual.
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"Because of the UK’s support for Ukraine we are in a state of ‘grey warfare’ with Russia; and the Russians will use every means at their disposal to attack British interests short of open conflict," Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, told Reuters.
Many of Cold River's targets were vocally critical of Russia and its war in Ukraine.
- https://www.reuters.com/world/... [reuters.com]
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Free translation:
Because the UK government has made such a hideous shambles of its job and the country's affairs, it is desperate to divert attention - and the traditional way of doing that is a "nice little war". In line with the government's hideous, hardly comprehensible, incompetence, it has chosen to pretend to wage war against China and Russia - the world's two most powerful nations - as well as many others.
The Russians, when they can manage to suppress their uproarious and contemptuous laughter at th
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Free translation:
Because the UK government has made such a hideous shambles of its job and the country's affairs, it is desperate to divert attention - and the traditional way of doing that is a "nice little war". In line with the government's hideous, hardly comprehensible, incompetence, it has chosen to pretend to wage war against China and Russia - the world's two most powerful nations - as well as many others.
The Russians, when they can manage to suppress their uproarious and contemptuous laughter at the spectacle of the absurd little mongrel that is trying to bite their ankles, are taking reasonable precautions in case the UK government actually goes insane and attacks Russia.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-czj... [blogspot.com]
The thing is, there is a mountain of evidence that Russians have interfered in UK politics over the last decade, not the least of which is Aaron Banks and the Leave campaign receiving loads of Russian money. Same all over Europe as far right causes from Victor Orban in Hungary to AfD in Germany, 5 Stars in Italy, Vox in Spain to National Front in France, all receiving assistance from Russian sources, all with the goal of destabilising the EU and Western Europe.
Fortunately most Europeans grew up with Russ
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Moscow has claimed that there is no evidence. Why do you?
"Because of the UK’s support for Ukraine we are in a state of ‘grey warfare’ with Russia; and the Russians will use every means at their disposal to attack British interests short of open conflict," Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, told Reuters.
Of course, the flip side of this is that the UK and its allies will use every means at their disposal to attack Russian interests, short of open conflict.
Its all just 'duh'
Obviously the USA, UK et.al. are conducting offensive cyber campaigns against the Russian political and governmental processes just as Russia is conducting these campaigns.
The Western countries should stop acting all surprised and butthurt over it.
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Obviously the USA, UK et.al. are conducting offensive cyber campaigns against the Russian political and governmental processes just as Russia is conducting these campaigns.
But it is much harder to target misinformation at the citizenry of those countries where the internet is pre-censored before any of them can see it. This type of mischief only works in free countries, and we don't have an equivalent response available.
The so-called 'free countries' are actually targeting their own people with massive amounts of propaganda already, China and Russia don't have much chance to make theirs effective in the West.
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Russia has a political process?
Since when?
It's just "vote" for Putin or go to jail. (or Ukraine)
And that would be interfered with
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Is the "Foreign Office minister" or the "UK National Cyber Security Centre" a political party?
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Leo Docherty, the minister referred to, is a politician and a member of the current UK government. He is a Conservative MP.
(Note: the last statement is true only if the word "Conservative" is capitalised, as the name of the Conservative Party. No one in the current government is actually conservative in any sensible meaning of the word).
As to the "UK National Cyber Security Centre", it sounds like one of the continually expanding alphabet soup of government department, quangos ("Quasi-autonomous non-governm
Are they sure? (Score:2)
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Russia has been 0wning the UK for a long time. Brexit was their greatest triumph.
Re: Are they sure? (Score:2)
Brexit, just like orange clown, was a successful scam by Zuckerberg and Cambridge Analytica. $deity knows how many other elections and/or other nations they helped tip the balance.
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Don't forget Crimea too
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Don't forget Crimea too
You have to wonder, since 'Russia' did such an amazing job in Crimea in 2014 why did they fuck up so badly when they rolled into Ukraine proper?
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That's a difficult one. Complacent? Assumption that the west doesn't care?
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Or be accused of fighting a proxy war. The other problem because nf that massive caches of arms are left over at the end.
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There's nothing written in stone that says Ukraine will be accepted into NATO, it needs full agreement from all members I thought. They're on the way to becoming an EU member though. I don't think that changes the way that NATO responds to an attack, I think EU membership just means more to do with trade agreements than defense (I might be wrong, likely).
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There's nothing written in stone that says Ukraine will be accepted into NATO, it needs full agreement from all members I thought. They're on the way to becoming an EU member though. I don't think that changes the way that NATO responds to an attack, I think EU membership just means more to do with trade agreements than defense (I might be wrong, likely).
If an EU country that wasn't a member of NATO got invaded, it would be... problematic for Europe
And I couldn't see Hungary allowing Ukraine to join either, until they have some kind of... regime change.
Hey, USA, fancy arranging a coup in Hungary? It wouldn't be the first democracy you overthrew...
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Or be accused of fighting a proxy war. The other problem because nf that massive caches of arms are left over at the end.
I keep wondering; if Ukraine wins and pushes Russia out, what do they do next? Where does Ukraine go with its newfound military might? 'Liberation' of Belarus?
Moldova?
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NATO membership would make sense, so they would be stupid to start aggressive behaviour.
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You should be more worried about what happens in Russia.
Once Ukraine finishes with them. How many other regions are going to want to break free and declare independence. How is a broken Russia going to stop them?
Better start saving up for supplies. You'll be heading into round two.
I've seen graffiti in Ulaanbaatar saying "Free Buryatia"
And China would very much like North Manchuria back.
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The Russia Report, still unpublished in full, shows that Russia helped Vote Leave win.
Oh no... Someone has been informing the people! (Score:2)
'"They have been targeting high-profile individuals and entities with a clear intent: using information they obtained to meddle in British politics," Foreign Office minister Leo Docherty told the House of Commons on Thursday'.
The dastardly swine! Showing British voters their masters' secrets... how dare they.
Actually there is more than enough reliable information available from various non-official sources to dissuade any honest, intelligent, educated British person from voting at all. There just isn't anyo
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'"They have been targeting high-profile individuals and entities with a clear intent: using information they obtained to meddle in British politics," Foreign Office minister Leo Docherty told the House of Commons on Thursday'.
The dastardly swine! Showing British voters their masters' secrets... how dare they.
Actually there is more than enough reliable information available from various non-official sources to dissuade any honest, intelligent, educated British person from voting at all. There just isn't anyone worth voting for.
UK and USA would never EVER meddle in Russian politics. Not ever. No way.
LOL
"It's Done" (Score:2)
Did the UK refute Theresa May's "It's Done" message to Tony Blinken moments after Nord Stream was blown up?
AIUI FSB was in her unsecured iPhone and Parliament sacked her rather than admit involvement in an ecoterrorist attack on a NATO ally's critical infrastructure.
Schultz is painfully low-T for a supposed leader. Imagine just nodding along while a doddering old fool threatens your country.
No wonder they're trying to outlaw AfD.
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Did the UK refute Theresa May's "It's Done" message to Tony Blinken moments after Nord Stream was blown up?
AIUI FSB was in her unsecured iPhone and Parliament sacked her rather than admit involvement in an ecoterrorist attack on a NATO ally's critical infrastructure.
Schultz is painfully low-T for a supposed leader. Imagine just nodding along while a doddering old fool threatens your country.
No wonder they're trying to outlaw AfD.
Seriously?
When even The Daily Mail debunks a conspiracy theory [dailymail.co.uk] you really need to move on.
For the too lazy too read the Russia apparently hacked Lizz Truss's phone over the summer while she was foreign secretary (this seems to be true). Kim Dotcom then claimed that they saw her text "It's done" to Bilken after the attack, and then Russia started parroting the claim.
For the too lazy to criticality think here's the problems with that narrative.
1) The phone hack was discovered in the summer of 2022 and pipelin
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Of course not. It's obvious Russia blew-up their own pipe-line to deprive Europe of cheap gas. Even though all they needed to do was turn the tap off at their end. The down-side or up-side being that Europe now pays FOUR times the price for US gas.