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The Verge
April 21, 2018
The Democratic National Committee has accused the Russian Federation, the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, the hacker Guccifer 2.0, and several others of engineering a conspiracy to leak damaging DNC data. A new lawsuit, which was reported earlier today by The Washington Post, claims its targetsÃâà...
The Parallax (blog)
March 28, 2018
Thanks to fumbling a VPN, the identity of the hacker who claimed to have stolen emails and other documents from Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Guccifer 2.0, has been revealed. At least two agents of theÃâà...
Artvoice
March 26, 2018
Was Guccifer 2.0 actually a DNC operative? By Frank Parlato. The Daily Beast recently published a story on the debate over the identity of Guccifer 2.0. It appears that in their view and the view of others, Guccifer 2.0 is a Russian asset who hacked the DNC servers — in possible collusion with TrumpÃâà...
WIRED
March 25, 2018
Guccifer 2.0 took careful precautions to remain anonymous for months, yet one small mistake may have blown the whole cover. ... Personas like Guccifer 2.0 or so-called Advanced Persistent Threat hacking groups have a certain mystique that makes their capers even more disconcerting, like being underÃâà...
Fortune
March 24, 2018
An online persona “Guccifer 2.0,” which claimed credit for hacking the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2016 election, has been confirmed as a front for Russian military intelligence. The confirmation has significant implications for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation intoÃâà...
The Register
March 24, 2018
Guccifer 2.0, the hacker busy stealing and leaking emails from US Democratic Party servers amid the 2016 presidential elections, turned out, surprise, surprise, to be a Russian intelligence officer, according to a well-source report. Said шпион forgot to turn on their VPN to disguise their public IP addressÃâà...
Boing Boing
March 24, 2018
Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia's military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. It's an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRUÃâà...
UNIAN
March 23, 2018
Guccifer 2.0 sprang into existence on June 15, 2016, hours after a report by a computer security firm forensically tied Russia to an intrusion at the Democratic National Committee. The Guccifer persona published a smattering of the DNC documents while gamely projecting an image as an independentÃâà...
The National Memo (blog)
March 23, 2018
While Guccifer 2.0 was long believed to be a front for Russian intelligence, Thursday's report confirms that the hacker was working directly for a Russian intelligence operation under the control of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Last January, Guccifer 2.0 denied having any connections to Russia, callingÃâà...
Paste Magazine
March 23, 2018
Stone said he thought his “entire communication” with “Guccifer 2.0” “was on twitter for the world to see.” The “brief exchange was public,” Stone contended. The 64-year-old Stone, who revels in his reputation as a dirty trickster, added he was unsure that the “Guccifer 2.0” on Twitter “is really him.” With theÃâà...
Defense One
March 23, 2018
Spending bill draws veto threat; McMaster out, Bolton in; Another FONOP; Guccifer reportedly as Russia spy; and just a bit more… By Ben Watson News Editor Read bio; Bradley Peniston Deputy Editor Read bio. 10:05 AM ET. Topics. The D Brief. AA Font size + Print Ãâ÷ Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ LinkedIn Ãâ÷ EmailÃâà...
Niagara Gazette
March 23, 2018
(RNN) – A Russian intelligence officer could be behind the online persona “Guccifer 2.0,” according to a report published Thursday. Guccifer 2.0 gained notoriety after boasting about providing WikiLeaks with hacked Democratic Party emails during the 2016 presidential election. Guccifer has claimed to beÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 22, 2018
The hacker who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee in 2016 has been linked to Russian military intelligence, according to a report by The Daily Beast late Thursday. The hacker, known as Guccifer 2.0, had claimed to be a Romanian "hacktivist,"Ãâà...
Dark Reading
March 11, 2018
Whether Guccifer 2.0 was truly fooled or playing along with the ruse remains unclear, but Bambenek observed that he mostly appeared to be eager to share with and show off the stolen data he requested. "It would be odd that he played dumb that long, but deception is the primary tool in the intel tool belt,"Ãâà...
