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U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms
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Source: Washington Post
The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said, a warning that the groups operations against the United States are not cost-free.
The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election, the officials said.
They basically took the IRA offline, according to one individual familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified information. They shut em down.
The operation marked the first muscle-flexing by U.S. Cyber Command, with intelligence from the National Security Agency, under new authorities it was granted by President Trump and Congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-cyber-command-operation-disrupted-internet-access-of-russian-troll-factory-on-day-of-2018-midterms/2019/02/26/1827fc9e-36d6-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.48d5dea5c552
SWBTATTReg
(22,112 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Start with Twitter.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Afromania
(2,768 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)imaginary girl
(861 posts)There are interesting implications to this. If their goal was just to change minds and sow discord via false info, why disconnect them the day of the election? Seems more like an attempt to keep them from interference or communication regarding vote manipulation to me.
KT2000
(20,576 posts)I don't doubt the agencies know more about 2016 than they are letting on. trump is an illegitimate president.
imaginary girl
(861 posts)Even if it doesn't come out!
Chakaconcarne
(2,444 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Or rather, how they didn't steal the House. I'm sure the Russiapublicans were pissed.
dawnie51
(959 posts)so the Russians or anyone who cares to help can keep them in office for infinity. I have to agree with Sarah Kendzior; this is so plain, there is no ambiguity. And no one is doing anything to stop it. Or so it appears.
maxsolomon
(33,310 posts)What a coincidence.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Hekate
(90,645 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)just got defunded a few weeks ago.