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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by 40four »

macNchz wrote: post #24

I've been wondering if we'd see a cyber campaign emerge in this conflict. To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Gloves-off cyber war doesn't sound good to me. The US CISA already been cut back, has lost "virtually all of its top officials"^, doesn't have a permanent director, and is operating at a further reduced capacity because of the DHS…

I forget all the details but a hacker group associated with Iran already hacked the infrastructure of a major US health care tech company

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by guzfip »

pasquinelli wrote: post #55
bcjdjsndon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah lol, if you're suddenly policeman of the world going after evil regimes, how is North Korea still standing? They're forced to be robots or they're killed

consider that the same people that tell you what's going on in the DPRK also said iran was two weeks away from nuking the middle east, that something called the cartel of the sun was responsible for the drug trade in the united states, and that epstein killed himself.

At the end of the day. There are enough idiots to fall for it not once, but twice. The exact same lie.

We’re doomed because the people are idiots.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

megous wrote: post #63
mlmonkey wrote: post #20

> On their website, the hacker group Handala Hack Team said . . . . Anybody have a link? You know, for science ... Edit: Apparently, just last week the DoJ snatched their domains: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-i...

not all of them, search harder

So, to echo the previous comment, got a link?

"Search harder" is a pretty unfriendly response to a request for a link...

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by bpt3 »

bcjdjsndon wrote: post #22
_slih wrote: post #7

Forget the Iran attribution for a second. The FBI director's personal email was already in leaked credential databases from prior breaches.

Every now and then something happens that makes me wonder how the fuck America is number one, this being one of them.

Loads of natural resources, no local military threats, and historically a government that stayed out of the way and allowed individuals to reap the rewards of their efforts.

The first is almost impossible to screw up, though we're really trying on the last front.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by derwiki »

40four wrote: post #71
macNchz wrote: post #24

I've been wondering if we'd see a cyber campaign emerge in this conflict. To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Gloves-off cyber war doesn't sound good to me. The US CISA already been cut back, has lost "virtually all of its top officials"^, doesn't have a permanent director, and is operating at a further reduced capacity because of the DHS…

I forget all the details but a hacker group associated with Iran already hacked the infrastructure of a major US health care tech company

Stryker. FWIW a friend in ER medicine said it had very very limited effect.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by danso »

mattbis wrote: post #65

I really want to know how they did it.. was it some terrible password? He doesn't strike me as the kinda person even using a local password manager; like keepass. Somebody needs to find this out. I doubt it was gmail support... surely it could not be via his phone sim, and if he didn't have two factor on; That would be so funny. I'm tempted to check out the dark web or the telegram, but i'd rather not do either of th…

I too am very curious about this. Even if his password was exposed and he didn’t have 2-factor auth, doesn’t Google by default ask for confirmation — e.g. texting a number or backup email associated with the account — when seeing an unrecognized device? Maybe he didn’t have any alt contact methods associated with his account?

(which might not be that unusual, he’s old enough to have opened a gmail account upon launch, before extra info hoops were put in place, and maybe he never touched his account config in the past 2 decades?

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by nixon_why69 »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #14
everdrive wrote: post #2

Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out. If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celeb…

I think this is actually the opposite of the correct conclusion—just look how influential Patreus cheating on his wife was ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal ). I seriously doubt that Kash Patel doesn't have a bunch of skeletons to dust off and show the world; the man is a weirdo (much like the rest of the administration). EDIT: I actually misread the comment; I think we're likely in agreement. My bad.

I'd like to chime in and say that that Kash Patel, while completely unprofessional and incompetent, is way less of a weirdo than the rest of the administration.

His scandals are all about shirking job responsibilities to party and sightsee. That's not great from the FBI director but its way more normal than the rest of them.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by epolanski »

Painsawman123 wrote: post #64
mandeepj wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Iran isn’t alone!! They are a quad along with China, Russia, and North Korea.

that's the thing that people overlook the most in regards to this war.iran isn’t doing this on its own. Russia, China and north korea have been backing it from the start. they’re the ones helping with intel on US base locations across the Middle East, supplying drones, and working out strategies to drag things into a stalemate, plus whatever else iran needs along the way

Can you blame them? Iran is fighting for its own survival and has to find help where it can.

If the US had an educated administration not composed by lap dogs they would've known that attacking Iran was going to be a terrible idea.

Saddam did the same mistake in 1980.

He thought that the Iranian Kurds, the political opponents, the Iranian Arabs, civilians were going to raise against the regime.

None of this happened. None. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people, even kids, rallied around the banner. There are documented stories of 13 year olds, jumping on barbed wire to use their bodies as bridges for infantry. Disgusting, yet telling of the fact that the Persians will do everything to defend their land even if they don't like its leadership.

It's very difficult to convince people you're bombing left that you're helping them get rid of a regime (which, you never know for sure how popular or unpopular it is).

Iranians, yet again, are rallying around the flag for what is effectively a foreign aggression.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by JeremyNT »

everdrive wrote: post #2

Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out. If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celeb…

> The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news.

I have no idea why this would be the default assumption for somebody as sloppy and erratic as Patel. Look at how many people were emailing damning stuff to/from Epstein's personal email accounts from their own personal email accounts!

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