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

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Post by benterix »

Sonnigeszeug wrote: post #83
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

> i'm a software engineere in germany.

Fake German detected. A true one would write "I'M A Software Engineer In Germany".

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

#92

Post by mmastrac »

jijijijij wrote: post #89
mmastrac wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oops, totally whooshed over my head.

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

#93

Post by starspangled »

kcindric wrote: post #62
constantcrying wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well gentlemen, we will always remember this as the day we almost caught Donald J. Trump, again.

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

#94

Post by gigatexal »

constantcrying wrote: post #79
gigatexal wrote: post #71

I wish they’d leak Trump’s grades from college. And his associates’s trades around his tariff announcements, and all the things.

https://archive.ph/8RGAb here is the other reporting from the website. How high would you rate their faith that they accurately reported in this case?

The they here I meant was anonymous not this random site.

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

#95

Post by swdev281634 »

I downloaded and extracted the files in a fresh Linux virtual machine with tools for viewing Word, Excel, and PDF documents. After reviewing the contents for about 30 minutes, the data appears technically authentic—not AI-generated—but nothing particularly noteworthy stood out.

The files "Vulnerabilities/Fetched Data.txt" appear to be output from an automated security scanner that targeted public-facing web servers. Some directory labels are inaccurate. For instance, a company listed as a crypto exchange—Cryptopro—is actually an IT consulting firm focused on cryptography and PKI.

A number of Word, Excel, and PDF files containing corporate reports and similar materials appear to be publicly accessible online and even indexed by search engines. I was able to locate several by searching their titles.

One file, "Part 1/Report those Russian ringleaders/russRingleadersPerDFUNAFO.txt", seems to be the likely source of the "Kremlin Assets in the West" mention. It’s a brief list of Twitter accounts and may have been assembled through open-source intelligence methods.

While the leak might contain some mistakenly published or sensitive material, I didn’t come across anything as significant or dramatic as implied by the article linked.

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

#96

Post by znpy »

benterix wrote: post #91
Sonnigeszeug wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> i'm a software engineere in germany. Fake German detected. A true one would write "I'M A Software Engineer In Germany".

they said he is a software engineer in germany. they didn't say they are from germany.

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

#97

Post by genewitch »

petee wrote: post #72
Sonnigeszeug wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloud VM. Costs you a dollar per hour and has fast download speed. We are experts on HN. If we don't do it, others with less knowledge might or not might. And no, a archive file doesn't just include a zero day. A zero day is very valuable.

Fair enough, my morning brain didn't think cloud, though i guess one could argue you're still passing off the risk onto someone else. Either way, its not my expertise

Passing the risk for a price.

AWS is expensive, in my mind, because of stuff like this. They don't want you to nirror it on aws, so egress is expensive. The $/GB/month storage fees it'll cost to store this while exploring it is not cheap, either. And once you have an idea of the data you want to move out of the gap, you want to process /extract it quickly (because of $/GB/Month costs...)

I just thought about a spare machine I have with a 12TB spindle and an SSD not plugged into a network.

I understand how to airgap, and unless something can magically worm it's way through HDMI that's probably how I'd get data out, just to be annoying to everyone. To be fair.

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

#98

Post by IAmShevek »

starspangled wrote: post #93
kcindric wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Well gentlemen, we will always remember this as the day we almost caught Donald J. Trump, again.

Brilliantly said.

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

#99

Post by ValveFan6969 »

swdev281634 wrote: post #95

I downloaded and extracted the files in a fresh Linux virtual machine with tools for viewing Word, Excel, and PDF documents. After reviewing the contents for about 30 minutes, the data appears technically authentic—not AI-generated—but nothing particularly noteworthy stood out. The files "Vulnerabilities/Fetched Data.txt" appear to be output from an automated security scanner that targeted public-facing web servers.…

Who woulda thunk the AI generated article doesn't know what it's talking about

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

#100

Post by Sonnigeszeug »

genewitch wrote: post #97
petee wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, my morning brain didn't think cloud, though i guess one could argue you're still passing off the risk onto someone else. Either way, its not my expertise

Passing the risk for a price . AWS is expensive, in my mind, because of stuff like this. They don't want you to nirror it on aws, so egress is expensive. The $/GB/month storage fees it'll cost to store this while exploring it is not cheap, either. And once you have an idea of the data you want to move out of the gap, you want to process /extract it quickly (because of $/GB/Month costs...) I just thought about a spare…

A EC2 (vm) on aws with a little bit of CPU, Memory and enough storage attached, costs 1k per month which is something like $1.5 per Hour.

Its not necessarily about storing it longerm, its about 'looking into it'.

I don't get the Airgap thing though at all. There is a very minimal chance that this contains a zero day. The idea of a zero day is, that you can attack systems and you sell it to people who have high profile targets or systems.

Some random person downloading leaked data, everyone can download, is not a real target for a zero day.

And a zero day which breaks random unpacking tools and your vm/system, would be worth even more.

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