In addition to charging two criminal hackers in the 2014 Yahoo user account hacking, the US Justice Department also announced the indictment of a pair of Russian government officials working for the intelligence agency, the FSB.
This marks the first time the US has ever attempted to file cyber-charges against Russian government officials, despite years of blaming Russia for virtually every hack that has happened. Officials are also contending that the two criminal hackers were hired by the Russian government.
Russia appears to have been left totally in the dark about this, with Russian officials saying that there was not a single instance of US officials contacting Moscow related to the charges. Russian officials continued to complain that the “Russian hackers” narrative is part of an internal political struggle within the US.
And while that’s true, the 2014 Yahoo hacks don’t appear to be related to the election hacking scandal, beyond the go-to tendency to blame Russians for anything with cyber in the name. Perhaps the most obvious unanswered question, however, is why Russian hackers wanted a bunch of Yahoo account credentials in the first place.
blame the Russians for anything with cyber in the name…
I hope at least the idiots in the USG concocting these lies
are aware Russia is now called the ‘Russian Federation’ and
not by its former name ‘USSR’.
Sort of like the lie Cheney claimed about his having ‘proof’
Mohamed Atta, the ‘evil’ (9/11 boogeyman terrorist), was in
Prague Czechoslovakia, to pick up from an agent of Saddam
a package of Anthrax and LEGO kit to build an Atomic Bomb.
Cheney was too stupid to know Czechoslovakia had become the
Czech Republic and Slovak Republic nearly 9 years before 9/11.
That had to be the Oblabla DOJ, they’re as dumb as a box of stones. Both Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch fall into that category, as well as being corrupt to the core.
There are some in the current USG as well, mostly in the Pentagon and in the “Intelligence Community”, who are dumb as a box of stones, and just as corrupt. There still are a large contingent of Oblabla holdovers in the “IC”.
You’d think Cheney had more intelligence in his brains .. Apparently, that’s not so. Proving Mohammed Atta (the 9/11 mastermind) was in Prague Czechoslovakia, to pick up from an agent of Saddam Hussein a package of anthrax and LEGO kit to build an atomic bomb :))
You’re right .. Cheney was too stupid to know Czechoslovakia had become Czech Republic and Slovak Republic nearly 9 years before 9/11, in an amicable split. I think he already was getting senile.
I think I saw elsewhere that the ‘Russian spy’ was actually already in jail in Russia and charged with spying for the CIA.