Hackers Compromised the Trump Organization 4 Years Ago and the Company Never Noticed

[blogslut]

Source: Mother Jones

Four years ago, the Trump Organization experienced a major cyber breach that could have allowed the perpetrator (or perpetrators) to mount malware attacks from the company’s web domains and may have enabled the intruders to gain access to the company’s computer network. Up until this week, this penetration had gone undetected by President Donald Trump’s company, according to several internet security researchers.

In 2013, a hacker (or hackers) apparently obtained access to the Trump Organization’s domain registration account and created at least 250 website subdomains that cybersecurity experts refer to as “shadow” subdomains. Each one of these shadow Trump subdomains pointed to a Russian IP address, meaning that they were hosted at these Russian addresses. (Every website domain is associated with one or more IP addresses. These addresses allow the internet to find the server that hosts the website. Authentic Trump Organization domains point to IP addresses that are hosted in the United States or countries where the company operates.) The creation of these shadow subdomains within the Trump Organization network was visible in the publicly available records of the company’s domains.

Here is a list of a shadow Trump Organization subdomains.

The subdomains and their associated Russian IP addresses have repeatedly been linked to possible malware campaigns, having been flagged in well-known research databases as potentially associated with malware. The vast majority of the shadow subdomains remained active until this week, indicating that the Trump Organization had taken no steps to disable them. This suggests that the company for the past four years was unaware of the breach. Had the infiltration been caught by the Trump Organization, the firm should have immediately decommissioned the shadow subdomains, according to cybersecurity experts contacted by Mother Jones...

Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/hackers-compromised-the-trump-organization-4-years-ago-and-the-company-never-noticed/

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Here's that list of subdomains: https://pastebin.com/D0Ux1HxL

This article pertains to one I made in GD yesterday: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029776059

[guillaumeb]

1. Easily dismissed by Trump supporters as fake news.

Perhaps Mueller will show more interest.

Recommended.

[ToxMarz]

2. How does the fact they didn't immediately decommission the "shadow subdomains"

mean they were unaware of them. Maybe they were complicit. COLLUSION!

[american_ideals]

3. Guys, they HAD NO IDEA the Russians were using Trump IP addresses and domains. NO IDEA.

nm

[Brother Buzz]

4. I wonder if Mueller has checked his in-box lately

Now that the jig is up, some interesting nuggets might suddenly fall his way.

[tanyev]

5. Hack or invited in?

[Roland99]

6. Twitter thread Russian Subdomains. Sharing servers with Wikileaks??

https://mobile.twitter.com/mikefarb1/status/925428072316358656?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

[NBachers]

7. Sounds way more sinister and threatening than Hillary's emails.

[L. Coyote]

8. Something really stinks about this whole story.

How could they be unaware of 250 subdomains? Were they using Russia as a point of sale to evade taxes?

[TomVilmer]

9. Thanks for the follow up - this angle is more to the point

Some hacker gained access to the Trump Organization’s GoDaddy domain registration account. And even though Trump Org only has the best people, somebody was way better to hack it - and the "best people" did not notice. SAD!

[blogslut]

10. I try to be thorough.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Well, at least they didn't use a private email server !

You gotta have *some* limits !

[lagomorph777]

12. No hack! You're the hacker!

Seriously though, I think this was part of normal business operation for the TrumPutin Organization. No hack.