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Don’t Drink the Water

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ February 12, 2021 ⋅ 2 comments

With the explic­it threat of domes­tic fas­cist (yes, not “right wing”) ter­ror­ism loom­ing large in the wake of the Capi­tol Riot and the 2nd Trump impeach­ment pro­ceed­ings, a hack­ing attempt at poi­son­ing the water sup­ply of a town very near Tam­pa in the run-up to the Super Bowl war­rants scruti­ny. ” . . . . Some­one had tak­en remote con­trol of a plant operator’s machine – and in just a few min­utes, they increased the lev­el of sodi­um hydrox­ide in the city’s drink­ing water by a fac­tor of 100. After spik­ing the caus­tic sub­stance to unsafe lev­els, the hack­er imme­di­ate­ly left the sys­tem. . . . ‘The hack­er changed the sodi­um hydrox­ide from about 100 parts per mil­lion to 11,100 parts per mil­lion,’ [Pinel­las Coun­ty Sher­iff Bob] Gualtieri said on Mon­day, dur­ing a brief­ing about the attack. . . . ‘Some­one hacked into the sys­tem, not just once but twice,’ to take con­trol of the sys­tem and change the water chem­istry to unsafe lev­els. . . .”


Cyber Attribution, the Macron hacks, and the Existential Threat of Unwarranted Certainty

Posted by Pterrafractyl ⋅ January 16, 2018 ⋅ 16 comments

Did you hear the big new hack­ing news? It’s the The news about ‘Fan­cy Bear’ already get­ting ready to wage a new hack­ing cam­paign against US politi­cians? If not, here’s a brief sum­ma­ry: Trend Micro, a Japan­ese cyber­se­cu­ri­ty firm, just issued a new report pur­port­ing to show that ‘Fan­cy Bear’ has already set up mul­ti­ple phish­ing web­sites intend­ed to cap­ture the login cre­den­tials to the US Sen­ate’s email sys­tem. And Trend Micro is 100 per­cent con­fi­dent this is the work of ‘Fan­cy Bear’, the Russ­ian mil­i­tary intel­li­gence hack­ing team. What led to Trend Micro’s 100 per­cent cer­tain­ty that these phish­ing sites were set up by ‘Fan­cy Bear’? It appears to be based on the sim­i­lar­i­ty of this oper­a­tion to the Macron email hack that impact­ed hit French elec­tion last year. The same hack that the French cyber­se­cu­ri­ty agency said was so unso­phis­ti­cat­ed that any rea­son­ably skilled hack­ers could have pulled them off. And the same hacks com­i­cal­ly includ­ed the name of a Russ­ian gov­ern­ment secu­ri­ty con­trac­tor in the meta-data and were traced back to Andrew ‘weev’ Auern­heimer. That’s the hack that this cur­rent Sen­ate phish­ing oper­a­tion strong­ly mim­ics that led to Trend Micro’s 100 per­cent cer­tain­ty that this is the work of ‘Fan­cy Bear.’ So how cred­i­ble is this 100 per­cent cer­tain cyber attri­bu­tion? Well, it’s pos­si­ble Trend Micro is cor­rect, it’s also extreme­ly pos­si­ble they aren’t cor­rect. That’s going to be the top­ic if this post, because Trend Micro is far from alone in mak­ing cyber attri­bu­tion an exer­cise in gam­bling with exis­ten­tial risks.


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