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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 27, 2018
Borrowing from the known record, from statements of Guccifer 2.0, and from Roger Stone, and others, it becomes apparent that it is not publicly known who Guccifer 2.0 is and that there is no evidence that Stone's communications with Guccifer 2.0 had anything to do with the publication of the DNC emails.
BankInfoSecurity.com
March 27, 2018
Evidence continues to mount that Russian intelligence created the "Guccifer 2.0" hacker online persona as a "plausible deniability" cover for dumping information stolen from the U.S. Democratic National Committee and other targets, says Alan Woodward, a University of Surrey computer science professor. The latest pieceÃâà...
Fudzilla
March 26, 2018
Official reports from the intelligence community at the time, as well as common sense, pegged Guccifer 2.0 not as the Romanian activist he claimed to be, but a Russian operative, but they would say that, after all they claimed that the world is round and man landed on the moon. Fortunately once, GucciferÃâà...
WIRED
March 25, 2018
On Thursday, a report from the Daily Beast alleged that the Guccifer 2.0 hacking persona—famous for leaking data stolen from the Democratic National Committee in 2016—has been linked to a GRU Russian intelligence agent. What appears to have given Guccifer away: The hacker once failed activate aÃâà...
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...
Shareblue Media
March 23, 2018
Guccifer 2.0, the hacker who claimed responsibility for providing WikiLeaks with a trove of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign, has been conclusively identified as an officer working out of Russia's military intelligence agency. According to TheÃâà...
Stillwater News Press
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 National Committee emails during the 2016 presidential election. The hackerÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 23, 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...
The Parallax (blog)
March 9, 2018
Some analysts have said the hacker (or hackers) known as Guccifer 2.0, who sent Bambenek the stolen documents, is closely connected with, if not a cover for, Russian intelligence services. But Bambenek has his doubts about how connected Guccifer 2.0 actually is. And in January 2017, Guccifer 2.0Ãâà...
The Capitol Fax Blog (blog)
March 7, 2018
In August 2016, John Bambenek, a former Republican state senate candidate in Illinois, launched his own clandestine investigation of Guccifer 2.0, the public face of the Russian cyber break-in at the Democratic National Committee. What Bambenek found was that the Guccifer 2.0 persona — believed toÃâà...
Business Insider
March 1, 2018
The revelation adds yet another piece to a growing puzzle highlighting Mueller's focus on a prominent thread of the Russia investigation: the Russian-backed campaign to hack into the DNC and distribute stolen emails via the Russia-linked hacker Guccifer 2.0 and the radical pro-transparency groupÃâà...
Business Insider
February 28, 2018
Mueller is also looking into Trump's relationship with Roger Stone, a longtime Republican strategist who was in touch with WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange, and the Russian hacker Guccifer 2.0 during the election. The revelations indicate Mueller is zeroing in on what appears to be a growing timelineÃâà...
Business Insider
November 3, 2017
Suspected Russia-linked cyber spy Guccifer 2.0 edited a document to make it more alluring before publishing it during last year's presidential campaign. The word "confidential" was photoshopped on screenshots of several pages of the document. The revelation that Guccifer altered the document comesÃâà...
Newsweek
September 28, 2017
[Note: Stone would later claim he meant that he was communicating with Assange through “an intermediary.” A spokesperson for Assange has issued several denials including, “Wikileaks has had no contact with Roger Stone.” and “No communications, no channel”]. August 12, 2016: Guccifer 2.0 releasesÃâà...
Politico
December 31, 1999
Stone also denied having contacts with the foreign hacker known as Guccifer 2.0, who released Democratic National Committee documents during the 2016 campaign, prior to the breach of Democratic servers. Stone has previously hailed the hacker as a “hero,” with the two trading messages on TwitterÃâà...
Axios
December 31, 1999
In August 2016, John Bambenek, a former Republican state senate candidate in Illinois, launched his own clandestine investigation of Guccifer 2.0, the public face of the Russian cyber break-in at the Democratic National Committee. What Bambenek found was that the Guccifer 2.0 persona — believed to be a cover forÃâà...
