Russia Cyberattacks The Pentagon

by JASmius



First ISIS loots military social media account information, then the ChiComms plunder tens of millions of government personnel files, and now the Russians are taking their haul - just how long is this line to rob us blind?:

Russia is the leading suspect in a sophisticated cyberattack on the unclassified email network of the U.S. military's Joint Staff that prompted the Pentagon last month to restrict access to portions of that network, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Early reports firmly linked Russia to the attack, said one U.S. official, who declined to be named since the investigation is still underway.

"It was a spearphishing attack traced to that country," said the official, when asked about Russia's possible involvement. Spearphishing emails purport to be from colleagues....

The Pentagon declined comment on the investigation.

Naturally.  Especially since this wasn't the first Russian cyberattack of even this year:

In late April, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter blamed Russian hackers for a cyber intrusion on an unclassified U.S. military network this year, saying they discovered an old vulnerability that had not been patched.

In that case, Carter said the Pentagon quickly identified the compromise and had incident responders "hunting the intruders within twenty-four hours."

Or so he claimed.  These people are so far behind the curve on cybersecurity that they could be walking around without their pants and they wouldn't be aware of it.

And what has prompted this surge in Russian cyberwarefare against us over the past year and a half?  Reportedly, the meaningless, lame-ass "sanctions" that the Obama Regime "slapped" on Vladimir Putin and his cronies and capos.  Which would suggest that O certainly didn't get his money's worth - or perhaps it's that he got what he paid for.  At any rate, I tend to think that the "sanctions" were incidental, and that these cyberattacks are part of Vlad's overall strategy to resurrect the Evil Empire and take us down at the same time, in concert with all our enemies - Red China, Iran, North Korea, even ISIS.  And given our comprehensive defenselessness thanks to the Obama Doctrine, there's no reason to suppose that that strategy will not be entirely successful.

Not "if," another words, but "when".

It's a cinch we'll never see the final blow coming.