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Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

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Seems very dubious, new accounts in the comments urging people to download it ( u/Sonnigeszeug) all the 'sources' go back to the same file, claims it is on torrent trackers yet providing no evidence for? A very sensational article with no proof and if it was true downloading russian government data with no idea whats in it? the sweetest of honey right here

I am sure the other reports from the website are very real: https://archive.ph/8RGAb

Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

#62
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Yikes, the archive article asked me to install Abobe Flash, and I am on Linux. I guess it is really from Russia :)

It's an article from an Indian right wing conspiracy news website. Check out their other hard hitting journalism: https://archive.ph/8RGAb

oufff, okay, this puts the reliability of the article much lower now.

Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

#63

What is wrong with people. Who believes this is real? Do you really think a WordPress website from India posting obvious fake news and conspiracies should be trusted? Do you think the source that brought you this is reliable in any way: https://archive.ph/8RGAb "Shocking Footage: Hunter Biden & Ellen Caught in Adrenochrome Bust!"

People need to believe someone else out there will solve their geopolitical problems for them.

I thought at least people on this website would be able decipher that this is an obvious fake news website, it also posts some of the most generic right wing conspiracy theories. Quite disappointing to be honest.

Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

#64

Seems very dubious, new accounts in the comments urging people to download it ( u/Sonnigeszeug) all the 'sources' go back to the same file, claims it is on torrent trackers yet providing no evidence for? A very sensational article with no proof and if it was true downloading russian government data with no idea whats in it? the sweetest of honey right here

Most people have absolutely no way to handle a 10TB file, anyway. Even 1TB csv files can be a challenge. Need to use DuckDB or chunk it somehow.

A lot of ways to hide nasty surprises in such a file, too.

Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

#65

What is wrong with people. Who believes this is real? Do you really think a WordPress website from India posting obvious fake news and conspiracies should be trusted? Do you think the source that brought you this is reliable in any way: https://archive.ph/8RGAb "Shocking Footage: Hunter Biden & Ellen Caught in Adrenochrome Bust!"

> Do you really think a WordPress website from India posting obvious fake news and conspiracies should be trusted?

Depends. Does it validate my Russian collusion delusion?

Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

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Yep, the safe assumption with a profile like that is that it's something automated. Also yes, that's the file size column. Uncompressed left, compressed right. It's a directory but the screenshot doesn't say how many files it contains.

Thank you German is not my strong point

Can't say I speak German, but at the top there is a Grose: nnn.nnn.nn.nn bytes.

Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

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10 TB file from a random website that I have never heard of? Seems like if someone was to leak this a more reputable news agency would have been notified instead of... trendsnewsline

Who if not people / experts reading on hn? Click yourself any server anywhere, download it, analyse it, share your findings.

Right because we all have the time, memory, and sandboxed virtual machine to test this safely without getting hacked.

Obvious honeypot is obvious. If you want (technical) people to download your malware you're gonna have to do better than this.

Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

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I deleted it because the discussion is void. The data is on torrent trackers and on shared file hosters. You can download single files in the torrent and if you can't handle a txt file without getting an anxiety attack that's on you.

I'm not interested in the content but you are, share your findings in place of asking ppl to do that. Why there are so many profiles (many of them green) hurrying people to stop thinking about risks and just open the files? Shouldn't they just open it and see? Edit as I can't reply: your behavior is quite suspicious and so is some of the new green users commenting. That is exactly what someone embedded in the hacker…

Of course, I am interested in major data leaks, as most people on this forum should be, since it's an integral part of the culture of the word before news in the url. After examining approximately 20 files, my initial impression is that it appears to be scraped OSINT data. However, I won't make definitive claims based on such a limited sample size. Drawing one's own conclusions is also a quintessential aspect of hacker culture. Though I suppose that's not why you chose to have "webmaster" in your username and hypothesis…

Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

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So always wait for others to do something? Don't just download it on your windows home pc with your private data of course.

In some cases, yes. An unknown threat, potentially from the supposed nation-state target itself, has a very high risk. I'm not versed in creating ultra-sterile lab conditions -- things can escape VMs, escape your network, nothing is impossible. Do I instead bring it to my employers systems and let them take the risk? And to what benefit, when I can just wait?

> I'm not versed in creating ultra-sterile lab conditions -- things can escape VMs, escape your network, nothing is impossible.

I suppose it is a bit hard to find hardware without integrated wifi these days. Maybe taking a sbc (pi or whatever) and wrapping it in tinfoil would work?

Re: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

#70
From a quick scan of the file listing of the 18GB compressed folder linked for download elsewhere, looks like it's a collection of completely random data hacked over a number of years from various accounts that may or may not be connected with Russia (Guy Ritchie? Kanye West? Why?).

Also, why a PNG?

  2022-12-02 10:25:11 ....A        10530        10092  Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/IP, Port, Hostname.png
  2022-12-02 10:26:08 ....A        39852        37635  Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/SSL info.png
  2022-12-02 10:27:01 ....A       124662       114729  Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/Vulnerabilities.png
Some bank data seems to be exposed here (internal control panels), but in other cases it's just a dump of public website HTML?

10TB seems just plain wrong (didn't bother downloading the whole thing, though).

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