Russia Is Behind Cyberattack On Saudi Petrochemical Plant, Researchers Say (zdnet.com) 81
U.S. researchers from FireEye have linked a Russian research lab to a cyberattack on a Saudi petrochemical plant. The malware strain called Triton -- or Trisis -- "was designed to either shut down a production process or allow SIS-controlled machinery to work in an unsafe state," reports ZDNet, citing technical reports from FireEye, Dragos, and Symantec. From the report: The group behind the malware, which FireEye has been tracking under the codename of TEMP.Veles, nearly succeeded last year, when it almost caused an explosion at a Saudi petrochemical plant owned by Tasnee, a privately owned Saudi company, according to a New York Times report. The malware's origins were a mystery when FireEye first discovered Triton in 2017 and remained a mystery even after the New York Times report in March 2018.
But in a report published today, FireEye says that following further research into incidents where the Triton malware was deployed, it can now assess with "high confidence" that the Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (CNIIHM), a government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow, was involved in these attacks. FireEye's report does not link the Triton malware itself to CNIIHM, but the secondary malware strains used by TEMP.Veles and deployed during the incidents where Triton was deployed. Clues in these secondary malware strains used to aid the deployment of the main Triton payloads contained enough artifacts that allowed researchers to identify their source.
But in a report published today, FireEye says that following further research into incidents where the Triton malware was deployed, it can now assess with "high confidence" that the Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (CNIIHM), a government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow, was involved in these attacks. FireEye's report does not link the Triton malware itself to CNIIHM, but the secondary malware strains used by TEMP.Veles and deployed during the incidents where Triton was deployed. Clues in these secondary malware strains used to aid the deployment of the main Triton payloads contained enough artifacts that allowed researchers to identify their source.
Selector change (Score:2, Interesting)
They don't. They're really not more gullible than everyone else.
I saw yesterday on Reddit, somebody doing a 'look at the hypocrisy of Republicans' claim. He'd measured them on key issues back in 2016, he measured them on key issues now, and concluded Republicans had massively shifted to the extreme right. Which he called 'hypocrisy'. Suddenly Republicans are all pro-Russian, black-hating, want healthcare taken away, and toddlers prisons at the border, out in the hate extremes of politics.
*But* all that's ha
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OK, there's your problem, right there.
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Idiots say agreeable things all the time. Hell just look at half my posts.
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I assume you are talking about this post [reddit.com].
They surveyed people in the Republican party... and then later they surveyed people in the Republican party. Whether the people are the same and the views have changed, or the views are the same but the people have changed, is irrelevant. It's still a survey of the Republican party.
Re:It's not quite the same (Score:4, Informative)
Republican politicians should be targeting ALL potential voters
Nope. If they do that, they lose in the primaries to someone willing to focus on the base.
If you want moderate government, you should support open non-partisan primaries. Several states already have them, and middle-grounders tend to do well.
Open primaries in the United States [wikipedia.org]
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Republican politicians should be targeting ALL potential voters
Nope. If they do that, they lose in the primaries to someone willing to focus on the base.
If you want moderate government, you should support open non-partisan primaries.
There is nothing stopping people from voting in the primary of the opposite party. I do so, since my district will likely be won by my 2nd choice party anyway. Might as well vote in the primary for a candidate who actually has a chance of being elected.
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Re: Selector change (Score:1)
The Democrats are just as bad, but since the Republicans are "in control" they consider their own malice justified at the moment. It's what Prof. Hubert Farnsworth would call "perfectly symmetrical violence" or something along those lines.
The problem is that political parties, and more importantly their mouthpieces, are pushing members towards the extremes. They're constantly promoting the lie that you have to accept the ideology in its entirety or your opinion simply does not matter. You can't support g
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There has been some digging-in and over-the-top rhetoric on the Right, sure; but not to the extent the Left has moved further to the Left. This ridiculous argument that the problem with the country is that the Right has moved further right just needs to die. The whoosh one hears is the doppler effect of the Left moving rapidly towards the left (blue shifting), and seeing conservatism as red shifted from their relative position.
To wit: A few years ago, openly embracing socialism was taboo and democrats vehe
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Keep it coming, Boris.
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Hey; don't knock it too much.
Prior to 2016 Russia could do no wrong. The establishment and its admirers were the same Russian apologists that they'd been since the 1920's. At least now they have their fucking eyes open; yes Virginia there are actually bad folk over there, just like Romney tried to tell your dumb ass.
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Until they draw real blood, you don't have a case. "Influence peddling" is a bullshit charge from the weak minded. You present day McCarthyites are no different than the SJWs. You eat from the same trough.
All throughout we have proven to be the aggressors, but we don't seem to have guts to finish the job. The object seems to be to keep the game going. Good for diverting attention away from internal corruption and introspection.
Fortunately the malware went to a consulate (Score:2, Funny)
And then a was dismembered in a fist fight
Mixed signals (Score:1)
Which side am I supposed to be rooting for on in this one?
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The side that doesn't kill or threaten journalists would be a good place to start.
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Which side am I supposed to be rooting for on in this one?
The side that doesn't kill or threaten journalists would be a good place to start.
Which immediately raises the question: Which side am I supposed to be rooting for on in this one?
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The Democrats, silly.
Re:Mixed signals (Score:5, Informative)
Which side am I supposed to be rooting for on in this one?
The side that doesn't kill or threaten journalists would be a good place to start.
Which immediately raises the question: Which side am I supposed to be rooting for on in this one?
That's the joke.jpg
Russia's already been threatening and killing journalists that have been thorns in their side, and now we see the Saudis are capable of doing that as well at an even more audacious level.
Russia has an interest in doing this on a purely economic level too, since Saudi Arabia is a dominant power in fossil fuel production and export, and Russia's economy is heavily dependent also on fossil fuel exports. Busting up the competition like this with cyberwarfare is a fairly obvious move in the amoral cartel world that these guys are operating in.
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amateurish tit for tat (Score:2)
This might be a belated but amateurish tit for tat. [telegraph.co.uk]
The problem with failing at covert actions is that they become, ah, not covert, and provide justification for a more conventional [businessinsider.com] response.
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Oh boy, it's them-Russians-did-something-bad time (Score:1)
US main stream media is throwing up another smoke screen around the murder of that journalist to distract us.
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Enough with this commie cyber bullshit (Score:2)
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Students. (Score:1)
So we can assume that Students at a government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow, are behind the cyberattack.
Just like students at MIT have done things in the past that they eventually regret.
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If I Read Russia's Intentions Right... (Score:1)