Very interesting material. Ritter’s report is well done, even if heavily reliant on what rival cyber experts say about each other.
Some questions in my mind: How did the DNC become aware of the intrusion in April that triggered the rest? Who/what/when/how might be revealing. I’m sure they say some junior IT person stumbled across it. Yeah right.
How do we know that CrowdStrike wasn’t in on this from the start? Alperowitch, according to Ritter, is a big advocate of entering computers and taking files, in “self-defense”. Surprise! Cozybear and Fancybear entered the DNC’s computers and stole files. CrowdStrike’s magic software detected it all in moments. As your Item 1 suggests, perhaps they then extracted and promulgated the files themselves for a variety of motives. Unleashing a craze over cyber security, and getting massive free publicity couldn’t have been too bad for business. Has anyone noticed that Alperowitch’s vaunted concept of chasing down stolen files and zapping them seems either not to have been deployed or a complete failure?
Is there a common ingredient between the DNC and DCCC? Yes — Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is known to be a major client of the Awan ring of Pakistani IT crooks. Mebbie the target was Debbie? Or was she just conveniently inept?
There is another...the DNC technical director under Wasserman ...who also happens to have been a top dog or the top dog of SEIU, and DCCC and whose name came up in today’s Sussmann trial. She
could have more knowledge of the breach than Wasserman
There is another...the DNC technical director under Wasserman ...who also happens to have been a top dog or the top dog of SEIU, and DCCC and whose name came up in today’s Sussmann trial. She
could have more knowledge of the breach than Wasserman ...
Amy Dacey ?
She went from the DNC tech director spot before Wasserman Schulz left to the spot as DNC CEO after DWS left.