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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 54462892 United States 04/10/2017 12:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Initially, the Department of Justice claimed the arrest was not related to national security issues. However, in an interview with Russian state media, Levashov’s wife, Mary, said her husband told her the warrant he read talked about “the fact that the virus my husband allegedly created was related to Trump’s victory in the elections.” |
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Deadpool Loves You User ID: 73168454 United States 04/10/2017 12:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Initially, the Department of Justice claimed the arrest was not related to national security issues. However, in an interview with Russian state media, Levashov’s wife, Mary, said her husband told her the warrant he read talked about “the fact that the virus my husband allegedly created was related to Trump’s victory in the elections.” Quoting: Anonymous Coward 54462892 Does she mean the virus that the rogue agents in the CIA created that is designed to look like it was created by Russia ? And that by "related to Trump's victory" they mean "Failed to get Hillary elected" ? The universe is basically an animal. It grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots just to eat them. The Rickest Rick Sanchez comments are meant for entertainment purposes only and should not be construed to reflect the feelings and opinions, implied or expressed, of the author. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 63513989 United States 04/10/2017 12:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Russian hacker arrested in Spain told wife warrant was “linked to Trump’s election win” Quoting: Anonymous Coward 54462892 | APRIL 10, 2017 Spanish authorities arrested a Russian hacker over the weekend at the request of the United States government, based on a warrant citing allegations his activities were "linked to Trump's election win." How about a link? |
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fromthefuture User ID: 72445841 United States 04/10/2017 01:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Levashov was remanded in custody according to Spanish legal sources. He was detained at Barcelona airport on Friday while Spanish judges consider the extradition case against him. A source told AFP that Levashov is 'suspected of having participated in hacking the election campaign in the United States'. It is understood US authorities have 40 days to present their extradition case to the Spanish national court. [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Yogi Berra Lick some toad y'all |
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Rev. Bob Dobbs User ID: 74600165 United States 04/10/2017 02:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And what the hell does "hacking the campaign" mean ? Gee, I wonder if this will be picked up by the MSM here to restart the Russian Collusion drumbeat now that they know Trump "one offed" them iwith the missile strike in Syria ? |
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Daniel Higdon User ID: 69657566 United States 04/10/2017 03:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | She said that when she spoke to her husband on the phone from the police station, he told her he was told that he had created a computer virus that was “linked to Trump’s election win.” [link to www.breitbart.com] Sounds like a set up to me. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 54462892 United States 04/10/2017 03:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Kremlin says arrested Russian hacker has admitted to hacking election in Donald Trump’s favor What made Pyotr Levashov’s arrest notable is that Kremlin-funded TV propaganda news outlet Russia Today quickly reported that he was accused of having rigged the U.S. presidential election. This claim was not reported anywhere else, and still has not been. But now Russia Today is taking its claims even further, asserting that Levashov has confessed to his wife that he rigged the election in Donald Trump‘s favor. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 54462892 United States 04/10/2017 03:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | you fucking shill Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73619410 "Hacking the campaign" does not equal "helped trump win election" Russia Today quickly reported that he was accused of having rigged the U.S. presidential election. This claim was not reported anywhere else, and still has not been. But now Russia Today is taking its claims even further, asserting that Levashov has confessed to his wife that he rigged the election in Donald Trump‘s favor. |
Daniel Higdon User ID: 69657566 United States 04/10/2017 03:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.breitbart.com] It wasn't before the air strike on Syria but pretty close on timing. |
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Daniel Higdon User ID: 69657566 United States 04/10/2017 03:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | you fucking shill Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73619410 "Hacking the campaign" does not equal "helped trump win election" Russia Today quickly reported that he was accused of having rigged the U.S. presidential election. This claim was not reported anywhere else, and still has not been. But now Russia Today is taking its claims even further, asserting that Levashov has confessed to his wife that he rigged the election in Donald Trump‘s favor. So who is doing the framing I wonder? |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 54462892 United States 04/10/2017 03:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | you fucking shill Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73619410 "Hacking the campaign" does not equal "helped trump win election" Russia Today quickly reported that he was accused of having rigged the U.S. presidential election. This claim was not reported anywhere else, and still has not been. But now Russia Today is taking its claims even further, asserting that Levashov has confessed to his wife that he rigged the election in Donald Trump‘s favor. So who is doing the framing I wonder? On first blush, Putin trying to distance himself and his government from the facts of a conspiracy between him and the Trump Campaign to corrupt and influence the American election in favor of Donald Trump. |
Daniel Higdon User ID: 69657566 United States 04/10/2017 03:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Pyotr Levashov, 36, was arrested Friday in Barcelona following a joint FBI-Spanish operation also aimed at bringing down his Kelihos botnet, Spanish authorities said in a statement, describing one of the better known networks of compromised computers. Levashov is accused by a leading spam watchdog and other cybercrime watchers of being Peter Severa, who has been mentioned in relation to the Kelihos botnet. The arrest drew attention after his wife told Russia’s RT broadcaster that he told her he was being linked to America’s 2016 election hacking. [link to www.washingtonpost.com (secure)] |
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Daniel Higdon User ID: 69657566 United States 04/10/2017 03:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Alleged Spam King Pyotr Levashov Arrested Levashov is currently listed as #7 in the the world’s Top 10 Worst Spammers list maintained by anti-spam group Spamhaus. The U.S. Justice Department maintains that Severa was the Russian partner of Alan Ralsky, a convicted American spammer who specialized in “pump-and-dump” spam schemes designed to artificially inflate the value of penny stocks. Levashov allegedly went by the aliases Peter Severa and Peter of the North (Pyotr is the Russian form of Peter). My reporting indicates that — in addition to spamming activities — Severa was responsible for running multiple criminal operations that paid virus writers and spammers to install “fake antivirus” software. So-called “fake AV” uses malware and/or programming tricks to bombard the victim with misleading alerts about security threats, hijacking the PC until its owner either pays for a license to the bogus security software or figures out how to remove the invasive program. [link to krebsonsecurity.com (secure)] 28 MAR 12 Researchers Clobber Khelios Spam Botnet That’s precisely the approach that security researchers used to seize control of Khelios. The caper was pulled off by a motley band of security experts from the Honeynet Project, Kaspersky, SecureWorks, and startup security firm CrowdStrike. The group figured out how to crack the encryption used to control systems infected with Khelios, and then sent a handful of machines new instructions to connect to a Web server that the researchers controlled. [link to krebsonsecurity.com (secure)] |
Daniel Higdon User ID: 69657566 United States 04/10/2017 03:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | you fucking shill Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73619410 "Hacking the campaign" does not equal "helped trump win election" Russia Today quickly reported that he was accused of having rigged the U.S. presidential election. This claim was not reported anywhere else, and still has not been. But now Russia Today is taking its claims even further, asserting that Levashov has confessed to his wife that he rigged the election in Donald Trump‘s favor. So who is doing the framing I wonder? On first blush, Putin trying to distance himself and his government from the facts of a conspiracy between him and the Trump Campaign to corrupt and influence the American election in favor of Donald Trump. I don't know, but something really fishy and convenient about this story to me. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 54462892 United States 04/10/2017 03:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 54462892 Russia Today quickly reported that he was accused of having rigged the U.S. presidential election. This claim was not reported anywhere else, and still has not been. But now Russia Today is taking its claims even further, asserting that Levashov has confessed to his wife that he rigged the election in Donald Trump‘s favor. So who is doing the framing I wonder? On first blush, Putin trying to distance himself and his government from the facts of a conspiracy between him and the Trump Campaign to corrupt and influence the American election in favor of Donald Trump. I don't know, but something really fishy and convenient about this story to me. I imagine it only gets worse from here. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73594820 United States 04/10/2017 03:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Russian hacker arrested in Spain told wife warrant was “linked to Trump’s election win” Quoting: Anonymous Coward 54462892 | APRIL 10, 2017 Spanish authorities arrested a Russian hacker over the weekend at the request of the United States government, based on a warrant citing allegations his activities were "linked to Trump's election win." |
Daniel Higdon User ID: 69657566 United States 04/10/2017 03:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Trump’s Russia Scandal Returns As Hacker Says He Was Arrested for Virus Linked to Trump’s Win Sheera Frenkel in Buzzfeed pointed out that normally the arrest of a spammer wouldn’t make international headlines, but that he had reportedly been recruited by Russia’s national security service, “In 2012, Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, reported that Russian hacker forums believed that Peter Severa (believed to be Levashov’s online alias) had been recruited by the Russia’s national security service, the FSB. The researchers wrote that Peter Severa had been attempting to recruit hackers on online forums.” There’s a link here to a virus that spread fake news spam about Putin’s opponent in the 2012 Russian election, “The alias of Peter Severa was also named by a 2012 court filing by Microsoft, which outlined how the extensive spam network had been used to spread a host of computer viruses. One of those, the Kelihos virus, was used to spread spam during the 2012 Russian elections that pushed fake news stories about the candidate running against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Those emails included unsubstantiated allegations that Putin’s opponent, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, had come out as gay.” [link to www.politicususa.com] This is not looking good. This, to me, is the set up. Somebody tell me I'm way out in left field here. |