CIA hackers impersonate FSB hackers

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Information battles in America have reached such intensity that sensational disclosures occur almost daily. The Americans have just slipped the accusations of the closest employees of President Donald Trump in cooperation with the "Russian special services."

The charges were based on a "leak" of wiretapping materials from the Russian embassy, which was organized by the CIA. The accusations were concocted in such a way that the main spy was Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, and innocent presidential security adviser Michael Flynn was fired without even serving a month.

However, the jubilation of Trump's opponents quickly ended when WikiLeaks posted 8,761 documents on the Internet about the intervention of American intelligence services in US domestic politics.

The materials relate to various aspects of the CIA, which, along with the NSA, is engaged in wiretapping around the world. True, unlike the NSA, which works on the principle of a vacuum cleaner that sucks in all the information garbage of the planet, the CIA is sharpened for targeted operations. It specializes in specific topics, which are usually determined by the political leadership of the country.

The next strongest wave of WikiLeaks exposure was triggered in Germany, which once again found itself on the position of a springboard for American spies. Now the media are discussing the role of the US Consulate General in Frankfurt am Main, turned into a hornet's nest of professional American hackers.

Why, however, Germany, and, for example, not France or Italy? German newspapers are ironic: probably because spies fly from the United States to Frankfurt am Main "Lufthansa", offering free alcoholic drinks. However, it is also important that the German authorities will never touch the American information hacker. Moreover, the burglars are given diplomatic passports.

And the location of the consulate is convenient. From here it is possible to hack networks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In general, all over the world. According to Wikileaks, the hackers are armed with such wonderful virus programs as Abriss-Truppe or McNugger, capable of infiltrating not only computers and mobile phones, but even TVs connected to the Internet.

However, the German press is not limited to sarcasm about the dirty business of the CIA, since everything is much more serious this time: Wikileaks publishes sensational evidence that hackers from the US CIA pretended to be hackers … from the FSB of Russia.

In other words, the sensational hacks of the mail servers of the US Democratic Party and other important objects were carried out by experts … of the American special services in order to pass them off as attacks by "Kremlin spies". It turns out that a "mole" was found in the American spy department or affiliated organizations, who told WikiLeaks that the CIA has a special department that imitates the work of foreign hackers. In particular, Chinese and Russian.

"This could give the debate about Russia's perceived impact on the US presidential campaign," Tagesspiegel writes, citing the American electronic publication Wired.

But President Trump has long argued that there were no Russian attacks. And he accused the American special services of leaking classified information. Cybersecurity expert James Lewis of the US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) believes that the new Wikileaks stuffing will help Trump in his fight against his own intelligence services. And in fact: after this stuffing, there were widespread assumptions that Barack Obama was behind the scandal with "Russian hackers". And the other day, Trump directly accused Obama of organizing wiretapping of his headquarters in Trump Tower. Intrigue is ripening.

There is an inner logic to this whole story. Someone far-sighted is giving public opinion time to turn in a new direction, where more and more doubts arise about the legitimate nature of the CIA's activities. The debate is gathering momentum that the American computer security system is not facing the same problems that are being shouted about. It turns out that in this area it is not the Russian but their own special services who are playing tricks.

The expectation of a new stuffing by WikiLeaks on the topic of wiretapping at Trump's headquarters hung in the air. It is even difficult to imagine the possible political consequences of such a stuffing. In its explosive power, it can be equal to Watergate.

So WikiLeaks came to the aid of Donald Trump for the second time. The first time this was done was when, after publishing thousands of letters from Hillary Clinton's back-office server, WikiLeaks made her look ugly. Then the whole world trumpeted that this was the work of Russian hackers. Now Wikileaks has demonstrated that it was a “dress-up show” of specialists from the CIA with the aim of creating mass anti-Russian hysteria in America before the elections.

What the next Wikileaks move will bring. Is Trumptowergate?