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WW3 Update: Russia Strikes Back at America | Plus the Very Latest Q Anon Revelations (Videos)

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3-18-18

 

Russia’a message: Take THAT, America! 

Americas power grid under cyber threat! Russia demonstrating how they have the US power grid under THEIR CONTROL after Trump accused Russia of tampering with our power grid!

A major heads up guys!

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“Unprecedented and Extraordinary”: US Blames Russia for Cyber Attacks on Energy Grid. Trump Looking to Trigger a War? (Videos) click here

 


Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says

The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of engineering a series of cyberattacks that targeted American and European nuclear power plants and water and electric systems, and could have sabotaged or shut power plants off at will.

United States officials and private security firms saw the attacks as a signal by Moscow that it could disrupt the West’s critical facilities in the event of a conflict.

They said the strikes accelerated in late 2015, at the same time the Russian interference in the American election was underway. The attackers had compromised some operators in North America and Europe by spring 2017, after President Trump was inaugurated.

In the following months, according to a Department of Homeland Security report issued on Thursday, Russian hackers made their way to machines with access to critical control systems at power plants that were not identified. The hackers never went so far as to sabotage or shut down the computer systems that guide the operations of the plants.

Still, new computer screenshots released by the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday made clear that Russian state hackers had the foothold they would have needed to manipulate or shut down power plants.

“We now have evidence they’re sitting on the machines, connected to industrial control infrastructure, that allow them to effectively turn the power off or effect sabotage,” said Eric Chien, a security technology director at Symantec, a digital security firm.

“From what we can see, they were there. They have the ability to shut the power off. All that’s missing is some political motivation,” Mr. Chien said.

American intelligence agencies were aware of the attacks for the past year and a half, and the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I. first issued urgent warnings to utility companies in June. On Thursday, both agencies offered new details as the Trump administration imposed sanctions against Russian individuals and organizations it accused of election meddling and “malicious cyberattacks.”

It was the first time the administration officially named Russia as the perpetrator of the assaults. And it marked the third time in recent months that the White House, departing from its usual reluctance to publicly reveal intelligence, blamed foreign government forces for attacks on infrastructure in the United States.

In December, the White House said North Korea had carried out the so-called WannaCry attack that in May paralyzed the British health system and placed ransomware in computers in schools, businesses and homes across the world. Last month, it accused Russia of being behind the NotPetya attack against Ukraine last June, the largest in a series of cyberattacks on Ukraine to date, paralyzing the country’s government agencies and financial systems.

But the penalties have been light. So far, Mr. Trump has said little to nothing about the Russian role in those attacks.

The groups that conducted the energy attacks, which are linked to Russian intelligence agencies, appear to be different from the two hacking groups that were involved in the election interference.

That would suggest that at least three separate Russian cyberoperations were underway simultaneously. One focused on stealing documents from the Democratic National Committee and other political groups. Another, by a St. Petersburg “troll farm” known as the Internet Research Agency, used social media to sow discord and division. A third effort sought to burrow into the infrastructure of American and European nations.

For years, American intelligence officials tracked a number of Russian state-sponsored hacking units as they successfully penetrated the computer networks of critical infrastructure operators across North America and Europe, including in Ukraine.

Some of the units worked inside Russia’s Federal Security Service, the K.G.B. successor known by its Russian acronym, F.S.B.; others were embedded in the Russian military intelligence agency, known as the G.R.U. Still others were made up of Russian contractors working at the behest of Moscow.

Russian cyberattacks surged last year, starting three months after Mr. Trump took office.

American officials and private cybersecurity experts uncovered a series of Russian attacks aimed at the energy, water and aviation sectors and critical manufacturing, including nuclear plants, in the United States and Europe. In its urgent report in June, the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I. notified operators about the attacks but stopped short of identifying Russia as the culprit.

By then, Russian spies had compromised the business networks of several American energy, water and nuclear plants, mapping out their corporate structures and computer networks.

They included that of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, which runs a nuclear plant near Burlington, Kan. But in that case, and those of other nuclear operators, Russian hackers had not leapt from the company’s business networks into the nuclear plant controls.

Forensic analysis suggested that Russian spies were looking for inroads — although it was not clear whether the goal was to conduct espionage or sabotage, or to trigger an explosion of some kind.

In a report made public in October, Symantec noted that a Russian hacking unit “appears to be interested in both learning how energy facilities operate and also gaining access to operational systems themselves, to the extent that the group now potentially has the ability to sabotage or gain control of these systems should it decide to do so.”

The United States sometimes does the same thing. It bored deeply into Iran’s infrastructure before the 2015 nuclear accord, placing digital “implants” in systems that would enable it to bring down power grids, command-and-control systems and other infrastructure in case a conflict broke out. The operation was code-named “Nitro Zeus,” and its revelationmade clear that getting into the critical infrastructure of adversaries is now a standard element of preparing for possible conflict.

The Russians have gone farther.

In an updated warning to utility companies on Thursday, Homeland Security officials included a screenshot taken by Russian operatives that proved they could now gain access to their victims’ critical controls.

American officials and security firms, including Symantec and CrowdStrike, believe that Russian attacks on the Ukrainian power grid in 2015 and 2016that left more than 200,000 citizens there in the dark are an ominous sign of what the Russian cyberstrikes may portend in the United States and Europe in the event of escalating hostilities.

Private security firms have tracked the Russian government assaults on Western power and energy operators — conducted alternately by groups under the names DragonFly, Energetic Bear and Berserk Bear — since 2011, when they first started targeting defense and aviation companies in the United States and Canada.

By 2013, researchers had tied the Russian hackers to hundreds of attacks on energy grid and oil and gas pipeline operators in the United States and Europe. Initially, the strikes appeared to be motivated by industrial espionage — a natural conclusion at the time, researchers said, given the importance of Russia’s oil and gas industry.

But by December 2015, the Russian hacks had taken an aggressive turn. The attacks were no longer aimed at intelligence gathering, but at potentially sabotaging or shutting down plant operations.

At Symantec, researchers discovered that Russian hackers had begun taking screenshots of the machinery used in energy and nuclear plants, and stealing detailed descriptions of how they operated — suggesting they were conducting reconnaissance for a future attack.

As the American government enacted the sanctions on Thursday, cybersecurity experts were still questioning where the Russian attacks could lead, given that the United States was sure to respond in kind.

“Russia certainly has the technical capability to do damage, as it demonstrated in the Ukraine,” said Eric Cornelius, a cybersecurity expert at Cylance, a private security firm, who previously assessed critical infrastructure threats for the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration.

“It is unclear what their perceived benefit would be from causing damage on U.S. soil, especially given the retaliation it would provoke,” Mr. Cornelius said.

Though a major step toward deterrence, publicly naming countries accused of cyberattacks still is unlikely to shame them into stopping. The United States is struggling to come up with proportionate responses to the wide variety of cyberespionage, vandalism and outright attacks.

Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, who has been nominated as director of the National Security Agency and commander of United States Cyber Command, the military’s cyberunit, said during his Senate confirmation hearing this month that countries attacking the United States so far have little to worry about.

“I would say right now they do not think much will happen to them,” General Nakasone said. He later added, “They don’t fear us.”

SOURCE NYT


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    • beLIEve

      WHORE$ MANURE.

      It is the I$raeli$ who HAVE THEIR “dab$” on EVERYTHING. :mad:

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      The Greatest Spy Machine Of All Time – “OPERATION TALPIOT” and “THE TECHNION”

      Tuesday, May 16, 2017

      /alternative/2017/05/the-greatest-spy-machine-of-all-time-operation-talpiot-and-the-technion-3511560.html

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      Operation TALPIOT–The Israeli Plan to Dominate the World’s IT Infrastructure

      To Understand Globalist Zionist Power And How It Rules From Israel, You Must Understand These Words – “THE TALPIOT PROGRAM” and “THE TECHNION”

      Operation Talpiot – ISRAEL’$ KILL SWITCHES on the WORLD’$ INFRASTRUCTURE

      IN THIS BLOG POST YOU WILL LEARN:

      1) How Israel planned over 40 years ago to dominate the high technology communications sector.

      2) How Israel trained officers from Israeli Military Intelligence to become private entrepreneurs. Now they dominate both the public and private high technology sector.

      3) How this plan was titled “Operation Talpiot – The Talpiot Program”.

      4) How Israel dominates databases of all kinds from banking to medical, to policing, to NSA sub contractors, to government encrypted communications, to video surveillance systems for Class A critical infrastructure.

      5) How Israel and JEWISH POWER have a tradition of the Sayanim or Helper who assist Israeli Intelligence where ever these Jews live and work, anywhere in the world, giving access to all sorts of public and private sensitive locations.

      6) How Israel is setting up high technology co-operation schools under The Technion – their premiere research facility. This co-operation is used to infiltrate into the country of interest.

      7) How Israel has formed an alliance with Russia (in particular), Iran, China and India to supply high technology in return for trade and political support as European, U.K, American and Australian people expose Jewish Power and the racial supremacist state of Israel.

      8) How RUSSIAN JEWS in Israel are the MOST CRUEL to the Palestinians. How many of the RUSSIANS EMIGRATING to I$RAEL ARE NOT EVEN “JEWISH”, do not qualify as “Jewish” under Halakkah (Jewish religious law) but are allowed in because they have electrical engineering degrees and high educational qualification.

      Israel is crossing the countryside world wide forming high technology partnerships with multiple countries. In the Asia Pacific that is China and Australia. Through these organizations they infiltrate their Sayanim into the critical infrastructure of friend and foe alike. For Israel and Globalist Zionist Power – anyone not a “Jew” is considered a “foe” or “Amalek”.

      http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/operation-talpiot-israeli-plan-to.html

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      Operation Talpiot – Israel’s Kill Switches on the World’s Infrastructure

      Monday, May 15, 2017

      /alternative/2017/05/operation-talpiot-israels-kill-switches-on-the-worlds-infrastructure-3511126.html

      • Knarlydawg

        Thanks for the endorsement !

      • Knarlydawg

        It’s not the Russians ! It’s the Luciferian Rothschild Zionist Deep State minions and their Zionist, Globalist Shadow Government cohorts that are behind all of this BS. CIA/MOSSAD/MI6/JESUIT/MASONIC/TALMUDIC ZIONISTS

        • Knarlydawg

          This comment was directed at Jonathan Lee and the NYT source, not ” beLIEve “.

    • truck driver

      What’s going to happen to our new York Russian salad dressing at Trotsky’s diner.

    • Andy

      nice piece of propaganda including the old ‘accuse your enemy of what you yourself are doing’

      • IAMPEACE

        Summary: ‘All that’s missing is some political motivation’, so what would be the motivation? Would it be control of what?
        I have learned you have to ask the right question.

    • pocomotion

      I am not really affected by any of this. See, I drink city tap water with Fluoride.

    • beLIEve

      The JACK BOOT is on the other foot.

      The ashkeNAZI khazar FAKE “joo$” …..TRE$PA$$ING USA UK & Europe………..

      are attempting to DE$TABIL-LIE$ Russia with another IRAQI-type….CHEMICAL WEAPON$ ….LIE.

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      US and UK Trying to ‘Iraq’ Russia – What’s Really Happening (Russian TV News)

      Transcript:

      Sergey Mikheev, top political expert:

      - Whether Theresa May comprehends the situation, whether she resolves the internal issues, whether she’s the person who’s being pushed towards this decision, to blow up this scandal, it’s a whole different question. However, THE FACT THAT THE UK AND the US SHARE THE OPINION THAT RUSSIA BASICALLY POSTS A CHEMICAL WEAPON THREAT TO PRACTICALLY THE ENTIRE WORLD IS TRULY INCREDIBLY DISTURBING. the fact that the UK and the US share the opinion that Russia basically posts a chemical weapon threat to practically the entire world is truly incredibly disturbing. Why? Because it’s obvious THEY’RE TRYING TO CREATE A BRAND-NEW MODEL FOR THE DEMONIZATION OF RUSSIA. They’re trying to take the pressure on Russia to a whole new level, trying to convince the world that Russia is dangerous not just because of how they’ve “wronged Ukraine,” or because they’ve “annexed Crimea,” but because they threaten the world with chemical weapons.

      THEY’VE USED THIS THESIS ABOUT A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION THREAT BEFORE, and they’re using it now. Basically, they need to demonize Russia to the level of North Korea. They need to do this to prove that it’s not about a particular case, not about some post-Soviet controversies, but the fact that Russia poses a threat, as a nation that’s capable of attacking any civilized nation with chemical weapons. They’re building up a scheme on the level of a primitive comic book. THEY NEED TO DILUTE THE BRAINS OF REGULAR PEOPLE and political experts SO THEY ACCEPT this COMIC BOOK AS absolute FACT. Russia is this Dr. Evil, who’s immune to any and all reason. Russia has a different logic; it doesn’t care about the election that’s a week and a half away, or about the FIFA World Cup in 3 months. It just wants to kill people, in large numbers, and make sure they die as painfully as possible. Maybe, chemical and nuclear weapons don’t work, neither do missile defense systems, so Russia resorts to chemical weapons of terrorists and dictators.

      Maybe, it’ll be the next step? MAYBE, THEY’LL CLAIM that RUSSIA SUPPLIES SYRIA WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS.

      - As far as Syria goes, we’ve already heard from Salisbury to Damascus; :idea: OUR MILITARY HAS ALREADY MENTIONED THE CHEMICAL WEAPON PROVOCATION THEY’RE PREPARING NEAR DAMASCUS. :idea: The AMERICANS ARE THREATENING TO STRIKE SYRIA. :idea:

      There’s no doubt that is the next step, the RECENT UK EVENTS ARE A PRETEXT FOR WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IN SYRIA, FOR THE UPCOMING PROVOCATION, so that this situation develops logically, where THE WEST WILL DEMAND A COLLECTIVE RESPONSE FROM Russia, thus taking these sanctions to a whole new level. THEY also WANT TO DELEGITIMIZE THE ELECTION AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, even though it will be pointless to talk about whether the elections are legitimate or not since Russia is a country that uses chemical weapons.

      - A rogue nation.

      - Right. Besides, THEY WANT TO TAKE A SERIES OF PRESSURE-APPLYING MEASURES WHICH WILL LET THEM MAKE IT EXTREMELY HARD FOR RUSSIA TO REACH THE GOALS PUTIN SPOKE OF. Obviously, such an operation takes longer than 3 days or a week and a half. Of course, it wasn’t like they heard the President’s speech and decided to do this. But, they knew the obvious when it comes to the election campaign — it will have a very clear winner, in my opinion, no offense. Generally speaking, it’s decided, so they worked on a brand-new plan for applying pressure.

      As far as our OLIGARCHS go, who’ve donated 820,000, or more, they were clearly explained that they shouldn’t just waste this money in London restaurants, they MUST DO SOMETHING WAY MORE SERIOUS, OR or nobody knows what might happen to them. NOBODY KNOWS WHAT “EVIL RUSSIA, the evil Kremlin, and evil Putin” WOULD DO TO THEM. Maybe it won’t be evil Putin. It doesn’t matter. Something might happen to them. So, THEY NEED TO CONSOLIDATE, pay up, AND MAKE SURE THAT THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN RUSSIA CHANGES.

      https://russia-insider.com/en/us-and-uk-trying-iraq-russia-whats-really-happening-russian-tv-news/ri22791

      * * *

      British Scientists Confirm So-Called “Russian” POISON MAY NOT BE RUSSIAN

      Monday, March 19, 2018 0:03

      Source… http://washingtonsblog.com/2018/03/british-scientists-confirm-so-called-russian-poison-may-not-be-russian.html

      By Craig Murray, former British intelligence officer, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, and Rector (i.e. Chancellor) of the University of Dundee. Originally published at CraigMurray.org.uk.

      I have now received confirmation from a well placed FCO [Britain’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office] source that Porton Down [the UK’s only chemical weapons facility] SCIENTISTS ARE NOT ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE NERVE GAS AS BEING OF RUSSIAN MANUFACTURE, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation “of a type developed by Russia” after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation. The Russians were allegedly researching, in the “Novichok” programme a generation of nerve agents which could be produced from commercially available precursors such as insecticides and fertilisers. This substance is a “novichok” in that sense. It is of that type. Just as I am typing on a laptop of a type developed by the United States, though this one was made in China.To anybody with a Whitehall background this has been obvious for several days. The government has never said the nerve agent was made in Russia, or that it can only be made in Russia. The exact formulation “of a type developed by Russia” was used by Theresa May in parliament, used by the UK at the UN Security Council, used by Boris Johnson on the BBC yesterday and, most tellingly of all, “of a type developed by Russia” is the precise phrase used in the joint communique issued by the UK, USA, France and Germany yesterday:

      This use of a military-grade nerve agent, of a type developed by Russia, constitutes the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War.

      When the same extremely careful phrasing is never deviated from, you know it is the result of a very delicate Whitehall compromise. My FCO source, like me, remembers the extreme pressure put on FCO staff and other civil servants to sign off the dirty dossier on Iraqi WMD, some of which pressure I recount in my memoir Murder in Samarkand. She volunteered the comparison to what is happening now, particularly at Porton Down, with no prompting from me.

      Separately I have written to the media office at OPCW to ask them to confirm that there has never been any physical evidence of the existence of Russian Novichoks, and the programme of inspection and destruction of Russian chemical weapons was completed last year.

      /alternative/2018/03/british-scientists-confirm-so-called-russian-poison-may-not-be-russian-2-3602355.html

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      It’s Time to DROP the JEW TABOO

      It’s making serious discussion of Russian geopolitics and history next to impossible.

      https://russia-insider.com/en/its-time-drop-jew-taboo/ri22186

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      Joo$……..A $IN-PHONEY of LYRE$ :mad:

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