Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

trendsnewsline.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 102 posts

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

#81

Post by petee »

tbrownaw wrote: post #69
petee wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You could always cut the pcb lines if you want that guarantee.

I'm aware I'm being cautious to the point of paranoia, but anything with the Russian gov is just not something I feel like learning about the hard way, even if I think I'm able to make such a safe environment

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

#82

Post by Sonnigeszeug »

miningape wrote: post #67
Sonnigeszeug wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This goes for me in direction of civil service tbh. and if someone should do something and support, this is the thing we should do.

If people on hn, knowing how things work, are skiddisch, what normal people will do? even less.

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

#83

Post by Sonnigeszeug »

Rallen89 wrote: post #58

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

Dude... i'm a software engineere in germany.

I create new accounts because i spend too much time on hn...

I suggest to download stuff because i assume people on HN are well equiped to check it out.

Click yourself some cheap vm in the cloud, download it, check it out. Cost involved? $10

Do you expect journalists with less it knowledge to do this? I mean yeah they can and should but people on hn should do too

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

#84

Post by miningape »

Sonnigeszeug wrote: post #82
miningape wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This goes for me in direction of civil service tbh. and if someone should do something and support, this is the thing we should do. If people on hn, knowing how things work, are skiddisch, what normal people will do? even less.

To me it goes beyond "civil service" and becomes more like "military service" - you're directly putting yourself in harms way for the collective good. It's not reasonable to expect many users on HN have the setup required to investigate this - sure we're all interested in technology. But we're not all cybersecurity experts.

This is the equivalent of your grandma thinking you're a tech genius because you can restart the router. The skills required for this kind of work are specialised.

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

#86

Post by jijijijij »

mmastrac wrote: post #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 acc…

> Vulnerabilities.png

Clever. Instagram is an image hosting platform. At the firewall, guards watching the network traffic wouldn't notice png encrypted screenshots of cracked IP addresses being exfiltrated, drifting in plain sight in the usual pixel streams.

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

#87

Post by mmastrac »

jijijijij wrote: post #86
mmastrac wrote: post #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 acc…

> Vulnerabilities.png Clever. Instagram is an image hosting platform. At the firewall, guards watching the network traffic wouldn't notice png encrypted screenshots of cracked IP addresses being exfiltrated, drifting in plain sight in the usual pixel streams.

I didn't bother looking at the files, but I would wager that it's not as clever as you suggested here. If there's gold in this leak, I'd suggest it's buried in an Everest of crap.

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

#88

Post by fastglass »

am I just being a newb or is OP god-tier with their WPM?

I really despise these things where its a drop n run, and all these yahoos in the comments just talk oblivious towards the fact that person who submitted it remains silent about it..

like... this looks like a sweaty guessing game with everyone in the comments, especially over something that's very likely just troubled/plagued assets to begin with

like, just ask the dude who submitted the shit about more information first or something

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

#89

Post by jijijijij »

mmastrac wrote: post #87
jijijijij wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Vulnerabilities.png Clever. Instagram is an image hosting platform. At the firewall, guards watching the network traffic wouldn't notice png encrypted screenshots of cracked IP addresses being exfiltrated, drifting in plain sight in the usual pixel streams.

I didn't bother looking at the files, but I would wager that it's not as clever as you suggested here. If there's gold in this leak, I'd suggest it's buried in an Everest of crap.

Sorry, I tried humor.

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

#90

Post by agilob »

xyst wrote: post #50
jijijijij wrote: post #31

If this is real, there will be claims made and the general public has no way to verify. 10TB is technically challenging to handle for the vast majority of people. Would be really important for someone to re-upload and index the extracted files for online browsing.

Just like the Panama Papers? Did anything even happen after the Mossack Fonseca law firm was hacked? All I remember was a few people stepping down from govt positions, some rich folks get caught in the xfire (some football player used them). But nobody went to jail.

>Did anything even happen after the Mossack Fonseca law firm was hacked?

Yes, the journalist who reported on it was killed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia#Panama_...

Post reply on HN