French election

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11 hours ago, AUUSN said:

This Is the Evidence Linking Russian Hackers to the French Election

 

In the last two months, according to the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, the Russian hacking group known as "Fancy Bear" or APT28 registered at least four different fake domains in an apparent attempt to launch a phishing campaign against Emmanuel Macron, the moderate and pro-European candidate who won the election's first round on Sunday. The company, however, only published one of those domains, and didn't reveal why it was so confident that Fancy Bear was behind the alleged phishing campaign.

Now, other researchers are finding new clues that appear to point to Fancy Bear.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evidence-linking-russian-hackers-fancy-bear-to-macron-phishing

Russian text in the metadata.

 

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Did a bit of digging on that name.  Georgi Petrovich Roshka.

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https://www.alienvault.com/blogs/lab...=alienvaultotx

Many noted that all of the documents in one of the smaller archives released yesterday (xls_cedric) appeared to have been edited over a 4 minute period on the 27th of March.

These were edited by a Russian language version of Microsoft Excel. About half recorded a user named "Рошка Георгий Петрович / Roshka Georgy Petrovich" performing the edits.
It's suspicious that these documents, some which were created over ten years ago, were all edited so recently during the same 4 minutes. It suggests the edits may be following their theft, not before.
Before linking any individual to these attacks though it's important to note:
 

• A number of people have that name;
• This could be false information planted by the attackers; or
• An entirely innocent employee at a bank somewhere has been unfortunate enough to get caught up in this.

Similar previous mail dumps have included a mix of real and fake information, and the Macron campaign have also said that the dump is a mix of real and fake documents. It's important to keep that in mind – particularly when you see e-mails in the dump suggesting that politicians have bought drugs online.

 

 

 

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http://ph-tribune.com/french-candidate-presidential-campaign/

Published by Wikileaks alleged correspondence of French Presidential candidate’s Manuel Macron was manipulated by Russian hackers, revealed Radio Svoboda/Radio Liberty’s journalist Anastasia Kirilenko. “Emmanuel Macron’s emails were opened by the Russian IT-specialist Georgi Roshka on March 27,” she informed in her Facebook on Saturday.

 

The name of Russian specialist was found in the metadata of nine of the files dumped by Wikileaks and Australian “journalist” Julian Assange.

The original author of the documents, as the metadata indicates, was cooperative of the Macron’s campaign headquarters Mr. Serdik 0, but later information in the file’s property was changed into Georgi Roshka. A man whose name is Georgi Petrovich Roshka is employed by the Russian company “Eureka” involved in the cyber security area. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense and intelligence agencies are customers of Eureka.

On May 5th Wikileaks and “journalist” Assange published stolen personal documents and correspondence of a leading candidate in French Presidential elections Emmanuel Macron. Assange made available about 9GB of photos, scans and other electronic documents dated to April 24th, 2017.

The Macron’s campaign informed that hackers broke into their servers a week ago, but warned that there are forged documents among real files.

Japanese company Trend Micro confirmed that the hackers who attacked Macron’s campaign are Pawn Storm group, an infamous Fancy Bear and APT28. This is the same group of hackers that conducted attacks against other Western countries, including against the Democratic Party in the United States. Hackers provided stolen files to Wikileaks, an a para-criminal organization founded by “journalist” Assange, who has been unwilling to discuss his activities with the international investigators and hide himself in the Embassy of Ecuador in London.

 

 

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On 5/7/2017 at 5:22 PM, homersapien said:

I heard an analysis that Marine-le-pen is playing the long game.  Just making the run-off was a huge victory for her in the greater scheme.

I was about to say she is a more dangerious politician than Trump, when I remembered we've already elected Trump POTUS.  

This is the longest bad dream I have ever experienced.  

Our electoral process sucks.