Chinese Hackers Targeted IoT During Trump-Putin Summit (defenseone.com) 82
Zorro shares a report from Defense One: Four days before U.S. and Russian leaders met in Helsinki, hackers from China launched a wave of brute-force attacks on internet-connected devices in Finland, seeking to gain control of gear that could collect audio or visual intelligence, a new report says. Traffic aimed at remote command-and-control features for Finnish internet-connected devices began to spike July 12, according to a July 19 report by Seattle-based cybersecurity company F5.
China generally originates the largest chunk of such attacks; in May, Chinese attacks accounted for 29 percent of the total. But as attacks began to spike on July 12, China's share rose to 34 percent, the report said. Attacks jumped 2,800 percent. The China-based hackers' primary target was SSH (or Secure Shell) Port 22 -- not a physical destination but a specific set of instructions for routing a message to the right destination when the message hits the server. "SSH brute force attacks are commonly used to exploit systems and [internet of things, or IOT] devices online," the report says. "SSH is often used by IoT devices for 'secure' remote administration." The report notes that attack traffic came from the U.S., France, and Italy as well, but the U.S. and French traffic kept with its averages. "Russian attack traffic dropped considerably from third, its usual spot, to fifth," reports Defense One. "German attack traffic jumped."
China generally originates the largest chunk of such attacks; in May, Chinese attacks accounted for 29 percent of the total. But as attacks began to spike on July 12, China's share rose to 34 percent, the report said. Attacks jumped 2,800 percent. The China-based hackers' primary target was SSH (or Secure Shell) Port 22 -- not a physical destination but a specific set of instructions for routing a message to the right destination when the message hits the server. "SSH brute force attacks are commonly used to exploit systems and [internet of things, or IOT] devices online," the report says. "SSH is often used by IoT devices for 'secure' remote administration." The report notes that attack traffic came from the U.S., France, and Italy as well, but the U.S. and French traffic kept with its averages. "Russian attack traffic dropped considerably from third, its usual spot, to fifth," reports Defense One. "German attack traffic jumped."
China, if you're listening (Score:5, Funny)
China, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 2-hour Trump-Putin transcripts that are missing.
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Don't worry, it was just golf and grand-kids ;)
Nah, he apponted Ivan Muellersky (Score:1)
According to Russian press, he agreed to Russian intelligence interviewing US intelligence and diplomatic staff, under oath to get to the bottom of Russian meddling in the US elections. According to Huckerbee Sanders, he didn't pinky swear so it doesn't count.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/white-house-proposal-putin-mcfaul/index.html
He literally thinks the fix to his treason is to appoint 'Ivan Muellersky', a KGB man, run an investigation using Russian intelligence, to exonerate himself and swa
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Interesting that Trump invited Putin to the Whitehouse. If anywhere is bugged (by US intelligence) it would be there.
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Treason is defined in the US Constitution, and Trump does not appear to have committed treason. Malfeasance in office, violation of his oath of office, probably lots of other things, but not treason.
So for that to be even theoret
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When one party is kissing the other party's ass, is that considered "adhering to their Enemies"?
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or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort
That's the relevant part that brings forth the possibility of treason. If you replace the word "Enemies" with "the Russian government", then Trump looks pretty guilty based on public knowledge alone. They launched a campaign of subversion, psychological warfare, espionage, and cyberwarfare and Trump was read in on the most top secret of details confirming that before he was inaugurated. Since then he has covered for Russia and continually denied and obfuscated the truth of their attack, instead attacking an
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Interesting. The pro-Trump trolls have been remarkably quiet on Slashdot as elsewhere for a few weeks now. Then the Helsinki summit, and suddenly they're back in force.
Just sayin'.
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Most of them are Russians from St. Petersburg, they occur whenever the word "Putin" occurs in an article or headline. Other trigger words: "Ukraine", "Crimea", and now probably also "Novichok"
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The question still stands. Why did Obama issue a stand down order on the agent investigating all this?
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Actually Russia has succeeded tremendously. Russia knows, as Obama stated, and has been stated numerous times by intel and the DOJ, that they couldn't change the election, no votes were changed by anything they did or could do.
But they have succeeded in their real goal, causing societal disruption. You see, the leftists haven't realized the only Russian puppets involved are they themselves. They are the epitome of what Lenin referred to as useful idiots [wikipedia.org]. The Russians have gotten these people so worked up
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Ironically Russia created the discord and chaos by funding Leftist causes like BLM and various SJW movements. Who are Putin's stooges again?
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Ironically Russia created the discord and chaos by funding Leftist causes like BLM and various SJW movements. Who are Putin's stooges again?
I don't get your point. Putin funded these groups just enough to get them going. BLM and SJW movements are the stooges.
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You mean the sanctions that Trump has doubled down on? Do you mean the act of selling missiles to a neighboring country? Do you mean calling out Germany for propping up Putin by buying their energy resources?
I'm trying really hard to figure out which of these sanctions have been "lifted".
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I suspect that the translators didn't know either, considering the participants of the talks.
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Last time china was accused it was the USA (Score:1)
Do we know for sure its china? Everyone oursouces shit there, they are probably the middleman though.
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I'm always dubious about attributions of web activity, but this actually makes sense. China would definitely want to know what Russia and the US were planning when they got together, and certainly they couldn't trust what either side would tell them.
Note that activity by Germany was also up, which makes sense for the same reason. The odd thing is that US activity was down, but perhaps that's just in proportion.
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It's pretty obvious that Trump shows the signs of someone who willfully obliges in advance for fear of being blackmailed. That's what upsets the people in the US intelligence community so much. You have to understand that in ordinary elections, the candidates are checked before the final stages - they get in some room with old farts who have been in many intelligence committees and are asked: So, Mister X, is there anything we should know about your past before we go on endorsing your candidacy?
As probably
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Sorry, but I don't think that would suffice. So far Trump has shown no embarrassment even to things that would cause just about everyone in the country to turn red with shame.
My guess is that Putin threatened him physically. He is known to be a physical coward (see "cadet bone spurs") and that this is being hidden behind a facade that he's being blackmailed over kinky sex. This might even explain a couple of KGB assassinations in Britain, though that's a bit of a stretch.
Sure they do (Score:2, Informative)
For the record, stuff like this is why not releasing your tax returns is a big deal. We have no idea who has their hooks in Trump and how deep...
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the Chinese apparently hold no sway over his actions, and is the nation that stands to lose the most if a trade war continues to fester.
Pardon, but really? The Chinese have the most to lose? They could care less about us. They own us. On paper at least, they hold so many bonds and assets in the us now.
But that's not even important, the Chinese have built up their own healthy base of consumers, they don't need us to buy their junk anymore. We need their junk though cuz we stopped making pretty much everything the Chinese make for us.
Americans will be the ones who suffer, not only from the price increases, but now the Chinese are just go
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Depends on what you mean by 'need' here. I mean sure, the US is large enough and wealthy enough that you could survive on your own, but with both China and the US the thing is that exporting goods and services is deeply integral to the economy and society. The US is the second largest export economy [mit.edu] in the world. And that's only counting stuff you directly export to other countries. When
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I think you underestimate the importance of US agricultural exports to China, but just how much that would affect the leadership is another question. They could clearly direct a lot of the resentment over any tight belts against the clearly malign policies of the US government. They wouldn't even need to lie.
Also China has been building ties with various other agricultural exporting countries, so the importance of the US is probably less than it was. And despite the problems it caused, the "one child per
Crazy MSM (Score:1)
The mainstream media behave like petulant children that didn't get their way. Their attacks on trump and Putin just read like nonsense now. Putin is not the boogeyman, China is.
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Putin is not the boogeyman
Putin is an ex-KGB Lieutenant Colonel. If you don't qualify him as being a serious threat then you don't know shit.
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Wow a triple (Score:1, Funny)
Ivan: "I am ordinary Texas housewife and appallled at our petulant media complaining of our glorious American President"
Igor: "I am fake counterpoint, I almost spit out my hot dog at mall with my confirmation of the petulant media while pretending to disagree"
Mikail: "Wow, you two really summed up the mood of ordinary Americans and their hatred of the mainstream newspapers and China".
Get a room you three.... oh wait, you share a cubicle, so technically you have already.
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Long term this is an unmitigated disaster, since it won't be just the Russians trying to manipulate the US if we've shown such remarkable defenselessness. China will want to grab hold on some of the puppet strings.
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Google translate from trumpland to known universe:
trump behaves like a petulant child that didn't get their way. His attacks on the intelligence branch of the United States Military just read like nonsense now. Putin is not the boogeyman, he is a real active adversary of the US, similar to China. Unlike China's economic "attacks" Putin bases his on information warfare experience gained during his time in the KGB.
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So how is this Trump's fault? If Trump wanted to leak info to China, he would just do so.
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Wait. What? You call him a racist, but if he was then why would you claim he wants to help China?
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Wait. What? You call him a racist, but if he was then why would you claim he wants to help China?
Greed.