Russia Carried Out 'Stunning' Hack of Encrypted FBI Communications: Report

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-carried-out-stunning-hack-of-encrypted-fbi-communications-report?ref=home

Russia Carried Out ‘Stunning’ Hack of Encrypted FBI Communications: Report
Jamie Ross
Reporter
Updated 09.16.19 6:36AM ET /
Published 09.16.19 6:14AM ET

Russia carried out a “stunning” hack of U.S. intelligence services’ most sensitive communications, Yahoo News reports. The hack is believed to have happened around 2010 and reportedly gave Russian spies in Washington, New York, and San Francisco access to the location of FBI surveillance teams as well as the actual content of FBI communications. The hack may have allowed the Russian agents to avoid FBI surveillance, communicate with U.S. sources, and gather intelligence on their FBI pursuers, according to the report. “When we found out about this, the light bulb went on—that this could be why we haven’t seen [certain types of] activity” from Russian spies, one source told Yahoo. The Russians reportedly compromised the encrypted radio systems used by the FBI’s mobile surveillance teams as well as the backup communications systems. “This was something we took extremely seriously,” one former senior counterintelligence official is reported to have said. The intercepts were said to be monitored by teams at the Russian diplomatic compounds that President Obama ordered seized shortly before he left office.

[gordianot]

1. Imagine what they can do today now they have the ultimate agent.

Please note not a defector but a straight out agent.

[usaf-vet]

2. Now it seems they can just stop by the Oval Office to get our top secrets from 45!

Will we ever know how much damage tRump has done to our national security?

[czarjak]

3. We'll know when it's too late.

[usaf-vet]

4. I'm afraid you are right.

[MBS]

9. : ( n/t

[FakeNoose]

7. I'm pretty sure Jared Kushner hand delivers all secrets directly to Putin

He gets his father-in-law's instructions at the same time, so, two-for-one!

[uponit7771]

20. literally

[Botany]

5. Did Russia have inside help in this hack?

n/t

[FakeNoose]

8. The Yahoo News article addresses that question

Further quote from the OP:

While the Russians may have developed this capability by themselves, senior counterintelligence officials also feared that someone from within the U.S. government — a Russian mole — may have helped them, said former officials. “You’re wondering, ‘If this is true, and they can do this, is this because someone on the inside has given them that information?’’ said another former senior intelligence official.

Mark Kelton, who served as the chief of counterintelligence at the CIA until he retired in 2015, declined to discuss specific Russian operations, but he told Yahoo News that “the Russians are a professionally proficient adversary who have historically penetrated every American institution worth penetrating.”

This remains a core worry for U.S. spy hunters. The number of ongoing espionage investigations into U.S. government personnel — at the CIA, the FBI and elsewhere — including those potentially recruited by Russia, “is not a little, it’s a lot,” said another former senior counterintelligence official.

It seems the FBI must assume that the Russians can hear everything, can hack everything.
This is a full-on war.

[Botany]

10. Thanx Russia is way deep into our government

They installed both Trump and Pence into power.

We need to find out who the inside of America traitors are.

Flynn, Manafort, Gates, and maybe even Brad Parscale have sold out their county.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. easier to list those not in Gangsters Of Putin

Lots of GOPers have spent lots of time in Moscow.

And then there's Moscow Mitch.

[Botany]

25. FYI

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212465292

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. thanks! I missed that righteous rant!

ITTMF!

[Ilsa]

11. Dana Rohrbacher comes to mind. He was against the

Magnitsky Act and served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He also took sides against Georgia in their war with Russia. He has Russian contacts.

[ProfessorPlum]

18. Dana Russiabacker? I'd never believe it

/sarcasm. obviously

[Baltimike]

6. The Russian HACK and infiltration of the 2016 election is the biggest act of war

in the history of the Republic so this isn't a surprise

[triron]

15. And we have many here who continue to deny that. They say Russia is not our enemy.

[Baltimike]

17. those interlopers have said that from jump

truth will out

[dalton99a]

12. "They are doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign"

While the Russians may have developed this capability by themselves, senior counterintelligence officials also feared that someone from within the U.S. government — a Russian mole — may have helped them, said former officials. “You’re wondering, ‘If this is true, and they can do this, is this because someone on the inside has given them that information?’’ said another former senior intelligence official.

Russia has a clear interest in concealing how it gets its information, further muddying the waters. According to a former senior CIA officer who served in Moscow, the Russians would often try to disguise a human source as a technical penetration. Ultimately, officials were unable to pinpoint exactly how the Russians pulled off the compromise of the FBI’s systems.

Mark Kelton, who served as the chief of counterintelligence at the CIA until he retired in 2015, declined to discuss specific Russian operations, but he told Yahoo News that “the Russians are a professionally proficient adversary who have historically penetrated every American institution worth penetrating.” ...

In the meantime, those familiar with Russian operations warn that the threat from Moscow is far from over. “Make no mistake, we’re in an intelligence war with the Russians, every bit as dangerous as the Cold War,” said a former senior intelligence officer. “They’re trying all the time ... and we caught them from time to time,” he said. Of course, he added, “you don’t know what you don’t know.”

That’s the same message that special counsel Robert Mueller tried to convey during the highly contentious hearings to discuss his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. “They are doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign,” Mueller told lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee about covert Russian involvement in U.S. politics.

[Javaman]

13. We've been at war with russia for many years...

it's just not on the conventional battlefield.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

14. K&R

[BSdetect]

16. Gee, I feel the 2020 election is in safe hands.

[hughee99]

19. Did you feel like the 2016 election was? Nt

[BSdetect]

21. Not after I saw the first returns from FL. Something was up right there.

BTW I was being sarcastic re 2020.

[hughee99]

22. My point was, if you think Russia didn't have any problem

Hacking the election on Obama’s watch, what does it matter what Trump could do? They clearly don’t need help from our government to do this.

[BSdetect]

24. Clearly trump knew the russians were helping him.

That's why they went to Wisconsin etc at the last minute in a very odd move.

That was just a cover up for the vote tipping hack.

Complete collusion and treason.