All of this information is from Ukrainian Intel groups CyberHunta, Cyber Alliance, Inform Napalm, StopFake, RFE/RL, the Guardian, and Stratfor. All the sources are Ukrainian nationalist approved and Ukrainian friendly.
Shaltai Boltai is composed of Russians that worked in Ukrainian Intelligence groups CyberHunta and Cyber Alliance during 2014, 2015, and 2016. Both groups work for the Ukrainian Information Ministry which handles propaganda, information war, hacking, information operations, and fills out the death lists for their hit-for-hire-contractors. They are in prison for treason against the Russian government because they were working for Ukraine.
Was this group available for Russia to use for hacking and influence operations against the US?
Within a day of proving Mueller's indictment shows Ukrainian guilt over the 2016 DNC hacking and election interference, Michael Weiss' Daily Beast headlined "Mueller Finally Solves Mysteries About Russia's Fancy Bear Hackers."
For some reason, senior editor Weiss published this work of fantasy to shore up all of the propaganda websites he has creative control over.
About X-Agent which is a signature Fancy Bear tool the Daily Beast says " X-Agent was used in the 2016 DNC hack, but its history stretches back years before. It comes out at the tail end of what the security world calls the "cyber kill-chain." After the hackers have reconnoitered a target, squirmed their way onto a computer and made the decision that the machine is worth keeping, the final step is to install persistent malware that will let them monitor and control the computer indefinitely."
What's kind of cool about this is this is almost exactly how the Ukrainian nationalist hacker RUH8 describes the special tool they used on the Russian government in 2016. RUH8 and the Ukrainian hackers are the only known groups with this tool other than Dimitry Alperovich.
Now, what's wrong with the Daily Beast's description is the tool X-Agent was first identified in 2015, not years earlier. Most of what they write agrees with Robert Mueller's indictment of Shaltai Boltai.
A glaring example of where they step into unconsciously accusing Ukrainian hackers of being Fancy Bear because it is done in the same dull copy and paste methodology as the rest of the article. The author attempts to quote ESET's report about Fancy Bear which also gives a list of the hacking group's exploits. This is a positive step except for the part where ESET lists hacking Shaltai Boltai as one of Fancy Bears exploits that happened in late October 2016.
As noted in the Fancy Bear article, this was precisely the hack completed by Shaltai Boltai's workgroup of CyberHunta and the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance that cemented this entire group as the Fancy Bear hackers. This hack was noted by Ukrainian propagandists for some reason as a triumph for Ukraine.
Within a day the data hacked by Fancy Bear was released through Ukrainian channels to the Atlantic Council.
All the other information Weiss or his colleagues peppered into the article are in agreement with the Mueller on Shaltai Boltai. Just like the sampling above, their narrative falls on the wrong side of the expiration date.
Here's the problem. Even with something as basic as setting up a timeline and showing who is involved, all of the experts got it wrong. This is willful illiteracy among paid for INFOSEC and CYBERSEC experts and even MSM. They consistently got the facts wrong. Dead wrong.
The only thing needed to find the real group of hackers and influencers was a willingness to ignore current wisdom and investigate using normal nontechnical means. What I've found is the experts that are pushing the narrative for some strange reason don't have the faintest idea about what happened.
So far this year, or decade, this is the biggest story to emerge. Russian influence and hacking in the 2016 election brought us to hot points at different times where we thought conflict to be the next real evolution. At least for right now what could be larger than that?
This is the year for Alternative Media news and four of the biggest stories of the year including finding the Fancy Bear hackers were broken at Washingtonsblog and OpEdNews. I know a little about those.
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