Russia Says Foreign Spies Plan Cyber Attack On Banking System

Russia said on Friday it had uncovered a plot by foreign spy agencies to sow chaos in Russia's banking system via a coordinated wave of cyber attacks and fake social media reports about banks going bust. From a report on Reuters: Russia's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), said that the servers to be used in the alleged cyber attack were located in the Netherlands and registered to a Ukrainian web hosting company called BlazingFast. The attack, which was to target major national and provincial banks in several Russian cities, was meant to start on Dec. 5, the FSB said in a statement. "It was planned that the cyber attack would be accompanied by a mass send-out of SMS messages and publications in social media of a provocative nature regarding a crisis in the Russian banking system, bankruptcies and license withdrawals," it said. "The FSB is carrying out the necessary measures to neutralize threats to Russia's economic and information security."

Bank run bank run bank run!

[fubarrr]

>https://www.instagram.com/p/BA1LUf-tTFw/

I pray god that there will be one more bank run. I made quite a lot of money last December, when zerglings stormed banks and currency was traded at 15% spread.

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[Gorobei]

>https://www.instagram.com/p/BA1LUf-tTFw/

I pray god that there will be one more bank run. I made quite a lot of money last December, when zerglings stormed banks and currency was traded at 15% spread.

Currency was trading at more like a .015% spread. Retail customers got a 15% spread.

Re: Bank run bank run bank run!

[fubarrr]

No, no, no, I'm talking exactly about rates on mid-tier interbank currency exchanges that were on that night when people were emptying atms

Disgruntled Worker Trolls

[Jzanu]

Sounds more like some Russian Trolls got pissed off at smaller budgets/pay and decided to use the EXACT SAME TACTICS against the bosses.

We know it's ...

[CaptainDork]

... Hillary Clinton, you ass wipes.

Karma's a bitch.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Hillary couldn't secure her own email server and you think she has the peeps to attack Russian banking in retribution. Even in jest that is ridiculous.

Good offense, bad defense

[unixisc]

It's the same as having a good offense and a bad defense - like the old Oakland Raiders used to have

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[K. S. Kyosuke]

Or nuclear-tipped ICBMs, to stay on topic. ;)

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[unixisc]

Think all those Dem honchos, like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, John Podesta, Jennifer Palmieri, et al are so pissed at being out of a job (DWS' house wages notwithstanding) that they've decided to try looting some Russian banks. But given where the ruble is wrt the dollar, they'd have to loot plenty of it. Maybe try and hack Putin's bank account

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[CaptainDork]

RTFA

It's not looting, it's fake news to create a run on the banks.

None of the people you mention are out of jobs.

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[unixisc]

The first one ain't. The next 2 are, unless they've gotten something new w/ the Clinton Foundation

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[Nutria]

Or a false flag justification for their attacks.

Re:Smokescreen?

[Shoten]

Or a false flag justification for their attacks.

Actually, I was thinking it was a false flag explanation to give them cover for the growing insolvency of their own financial system. Blame it on the West, and all of a sudden Putin isn't running Russia into the ground...he's mounting an intrepid defense against a global conspiracy against Russia!

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[Nutria]

the Kremlin is still sitting on $390 billion

That's only $2700/capita.

in hard currency

IOW, "something more valuable than rubles." Like US dollars. (That's really gotta chap Putin's ass...)

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[Shoten]

The Russian economy contracts 0.6% and somehow Russia is insolvent? LJL. Sorry to break it to you but the Kremlin is still sitting on $390 billion in hard currency and a mere 3% budget deficit. Russia is in a mild recession but insolvent it is not.

I don't know where this 0.6% number is coming from, but it's not an annual figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

http://www.nytimes.com/interac... [nytimes.com]

http://www.economist.com/news/... [economist.com]

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[K. S. Kyosuke]

We all live in Russia on this blessed day.

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[unixisc]

If only! We'd have a huge Siberia, and not just that, big cities like Moscow would be red, not blue (red as in Republican, not Red as in Leninist)

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[yuriklastalov]

I all live in Russia on this blessed day!

Nogoodniks moose and squirrel

[swb]

Have been spotted around Moscow with laptops.

Saint Nicolas

[Errol backfiring]

The 5th of December is a dutch holiday, where Saint Nicolas gives presents to children. A bit like Father Christmas in the USA. In fact, "Santa Claus" is related to the dutch name for Saint Nicolas, "Sinterklaas".

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[avandesande]

My grandfather was an immigrant we used to put wooden shoes on the porch he would put gifts in them.

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[Rockoon]

Some of us like to call him the patron saint of thieves [google.com]

What's that about delusional rantings?

[smooth wombat]

I seem to remember, not too long, some high up Russian official laughing at the idea they would try to interfere with U.S. elections through hacking, or that they were involved with the Wikileaks email, or other related issues in the U.S. I can't remember the exact words but the word "delusional" was definitely in there.

Now, suddenly, Russia is claiming that foreigners are going to supposedly target the Russian banking system and oh yeah, they come from Ukraine.

How odd they should say this. Why would anyone

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[fubarrr]

Russian banking system is the money laundry of the world. When mafiosos run away to America, local banks loose no moneys.

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[Xenographic]

Except, this has already happened at least once:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/11/russian_banks_ddos/ [theregister.co.uk]

Yeah, I'm not clear on what he's saying, either. He appears to be expressing schadenfreude but it's ill-placed. I mean, they seem to be saying they caught the attack and stopped it. So one might think they actually caught the people responsible--how else would they have gotten to the attack ahead of time? But there's not much evidence given, so it's certainly fine to be skeptical of their identific

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[beastofburdon]

They are telling the world about the plot so that it will not happen, because if it still happens then it is proving him right.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sorry. I missed the part where they blamed Ukraine? Can you find me the quote? I must have left my reading glasses at the mental institution.

I also understand that you know nothing about Russia and Ukraine and the relationship between the people that live there :)

There's plenty to be sceptical about in Ukraine, but maybe start out with scrutinizing the new government and get some perspective and history on your rant ;)

You probably also think that people on Crimea hate the Russians :)

You should stop read

I hope so.

[Lumpy]

In fact please wipe out all bank loan records and records of liens. The american banking system needs to crater into ashes because it's only a tiny step above organized crime.

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[pla]

I know, right? Expecting people to pay back the loans they agreed to... And even threatening to *gasp* take back big-ticket items like houses and cars used as collateral for the mortgages? Might as well just give out bank-branded kneecapping sticks, amirite?

Banks certainly have their flaws, and make no mistake, we have some outright bad-actors like Wells Fargo. But as a whole, I have zero sympathy for people whining that their creditors actually dare to expect repayment. If you can't afford something,

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[AlanBDee]

If you can't afford something, don't buy it.

I'm confused. If I want it and I don't have the money then what? This video was no help at all. http://www.nbc.com/saturday-ni... [nbc.com]

How amusing...

[Oswald McWeany]

People OUTSIDE Russia hacking Russia.

Russia's name is Earl. Karma's bitch.

Re:Racist!

[frovingslosh]

I find your argument far more eloquent and persuasive that I had expected you to be capable of.

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[skam240]

And yet some how it manages to be more eloquent than yours.

The above just condensed your post down to it's one word base meaning.

Name calling.

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[frovingslosh]

O.K. I do understand that this will reveal my primary school education was not from the public school system and I don't really want to seem elitist by demonstrating my obvious superiority over you. but "name calling" is not one word, it is two.

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[skam240]

and the above post, the topic of the conversation, was one word.

Kind of a cut rate private school your parents sent you to there given that you werent able to infer that was the point.

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[frovingslosh]

Thank you for making it clear that it is my fault that your post was so ambiguous.

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[skam240]

Hey no problem, let me know if you need any help reading in the future,

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[skam240]

Start World War 3... you're being rediculous.

Your post is blatantly flamebait doing nothing but putting idiotic words into the mouths of the Left that none of them are actually saying.

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[frovingslosh]

OK, I agree to avoid the low effort trolling in the future if liberals agree to stop making it so easy.

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[Ryanrule]

Your wife sucks good cock, but not as good as your daughter.

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[frovingslosh]

Once again the eloquent liberal argument has put me in my place. And has shown all of us your place as well.

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[Tetch]

I wonder why so many inarticulate angry /.ers seem to have such a thing for this word "butthurt" ... If they want to convey that someone might be feeling displeased about something, but can't be bothered to articulate properly, the word they instinctively reach for seems designed to refer to unwanted anal attention, as if that's the most likely cause of disgruntlement .... and since the immediately preceding event is that the sneerer believes they made a good point and that the sneered-at-one was devastated

The West has to get its hits in now...

[skam240]

The West has to get its hits in now before Trump comes to office and rewards the Russians for their help during the election.

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[Oswald McWeany]

Trump can repay Russia by giving them Alaska back. That will make most Russians and most Americans happy.

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[skam240]

Pretty sure we want Alaska's oil

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[Oswald McWeany]

OK... we will keep Alaska, and give Russia the Alaskans.

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[cavreader]

The US bought Alaska from the Russians for 7.2 million dollars fair and square. Was that not the real estate deal of the century?

Yeah

[Ryanrule]

Good. /grumpycat

More Chaos?

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

I was under the impression that the Russian banking system was already in a state of chaos. International banks are fleeing the country, and anyone with any appreciable assets has them stashed in Switzerland.

Translated

[argStyopa]

This means that the Russian banking system is about to crash, and Putin needs to get his cover story "hackers did it" out there better than Hillary did.