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Re: Did Kaspersky step in dog-doo? (was: Massive attack of ransomware)

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On 14/05/2017 14:29, Jamey Caterwauler wrote:
> http://www.csoonline.com/article/3196262/security/did-kaspersky-step-in-dog-doo.html
> 
> US Intelligence targets Kaspersky Labs
> 
> On 11 May 2017, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sure made it appear as
> if Russian multinational cybersecurity company, Kaspersky Labs,
> had a stench attached to it.
> 
> During the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) session
> on World Wide Threat Assessment, when Rubio pointedly asked the
> senior most members of the intelligence community, including DNI
> Coats, DCI Pompeo and DRINSA Rogers, "Would any one of you be
> comfortable with Kaspersky Lab's software on your computers?" To
> a man, all replied that they would opt not to have Kaspersky
> Lab's software on their computers.
> 
> Thus with one question, Senator Rubio confirmed, what has long
> been suspected, that the US intelligence and law enforcement
> community was investigating the ties between Kaspersky Labs and
> Russian Intelligence. Indeed, DIRNSA Rogers affirmed that he was
> "personally involved" and DIA Director Stewart, "We are tracking
> Kaspersky". In the public session, no further information was
> revealed, and thus we are forced to speculate the impetus for the
> investigation.
> 
> Russian Election Meddling - it's so obvious, but there's more.
> 
> The members of the US intelligence community confirmed, this day,
> that evidence exists of Russian meddling in not only the US
> elections, but also the French elections of last week. The
> meddling involved cyber attacks, and data theft, with the
> information being shared via a third party to the rest of the
> world.
> 
> Election meddling and Kaspersky Labs? Eugene Kaspersky denies
> (regularly) any ties between his company and the Russian
> intelligence community, beyond the standard vendor relationship.
> Kaspersky also regularly hires talented individuals from within
> the Russian intelligence community (such is not damning, I carry
> the label of "former CIA officer," yet have no relationship with
> my employer of 30+ years).
> 
> Yet if we dig deeper into various cyber attacks, large scale
> harvesting and publication of harvested materials, in the
> Ukraine, US and elsewhere, we then begin to see the connection.
> 
> Moscow Arrests
> 
> In December 2016-January 2017, according to Russian language
> media outlet Kommersant, there was upheaval within the Russian
> Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB; Russian:
> ??????????? ?????? ???????????? ?????????? ????????? (???))
> Information Security Centre (CDC) - their cybersecurity team had
> imploded. (Background: The CDC oversees all of the Russian
> efforts against cybercrime in Russia, to include monitoring of
> social networks, theft of credit and financial information and
> personal data theft/leakage.)
> 
> Senior members of the FSB CDC were arrested and charged with
> treason/espionage. It is reported the deputy head of the CDC,
> Sergey Mikhailov was in a staff meeting and was bagged by
> security officers (a bag was placed over his head). He and others
> were then hauled down to FSB Headquarters (aka Lybyanka) for
> initial interrogation and then settled into the infamous
> Lefortovo prison.
> 
> While many in Russia found themselves with mouths agape at the
> FSB arrests, imagine Kaspersky Labs surprise when they began
> fielding calls as to why their senior manager, Ruslan Soyanov was
> also arrested.
> 
> Kaspersky Labs went into damage control. As reported in The
> Guardian. Kaspersky Labs acknowledged Soyanov as an employee and
> assuring all who would listen that his arrest had nothing to do
> with Kaspersky Labs. Stoyano, prior to working at Kaspersky, had
> held the rank of Major within the special technical activities
> group of the Moscow Police.
> 
> Where is the connection to the US?
> 
> The US connect occurs with the second batch of FSB arrests from
> within the FSB's CDC. Russian language media outlet, RBC
> identified Dmitry Dokuchaev, as a Major within the FSB and deputy
> to Mikhailov. They charged Dokuchaev with espionage.
> Dokuchayev Wanted Poster FBI
> 
> The name Dokuchaev may ring a bell to US readers. The US
> Department of Justice announced the indictment of Dokuchaev in
> February 2017, also on charges of espionage. Interestingly the
> dates of espionage activity charged by the Russian FSB and the US
> DOJ coincide. Both are through December 2016. Dokuchaev clearly
> had his fingers in many pots.
> 
> Thus, whether Kaspersky Labs leadership was witting or not is
> irrelevant, their employee Stoyano's collusion with Dokuchaev and
> Mikhailov was the equivalent of walking Kaspersky Labs through
> the field and having it step in a pile of dog-doo.
> 
> This is why Kaspersky Labs is the target of the US intelligence
> community review.
> 
> Thus Stoyano may have undone years of Eugene Kaspersky's careful
> choreography of the relationship between Kaspersky Labs and the
> Russian intelligence community.
> 

Have you stopped taking your medication again?

-- 

John

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Did Kaspersky step in dog-doo? (was: Massive attack of ransomware) Jamey Caterwauler <<tasty@toco.mx>> - 2017-05-14 13:29 +0000
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