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Has this been posted? Bears repeating even if it has

From January 14, 2013

The “Red October” Campaign – An Advanced Cyber Espionage Network Targeting Diplomatic and Government Agencies

"To control the network of infected machines, the attackers created more than 60 domain names and several server hosting locations in different countries (mainly Germany and Russia). The C&C infrastructure is actually a chain of servers working as proxies and hiding the location of the true -mothership- command and control server."

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I wonder if this is related. Just so happens it's dated November 4, 2020. I wondered what they were using distributed computing for.

United States Seizes 27 Additional Domain Names Used By Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps To Further A Global, Covert Influence Campaign

So assuming it's elections, then the 2018 EO seizing assets comes into play (like Flynn said, easier to find countries WEREN'T involved in our election). Prayers up for all our service men and women, particularly those serving in the Middle East.

11/29/2020 10:38:39 AM PST · by ransomnote · 7 replies

justice.gov ^ | November 4, 2020 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of California

Also thought this part was interesting:

"Beside traditional attack targets (workstations), the system is capable of stealing data from mobile devices, such as smartphones (iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile); dumping enterprise network equipment configuration (Cisco); hijacking files from removable disk drives (including already deleted files via a custom file recovery procedure); stealing e-mail databases from local Outlook storage or remote POP/IMAP server; and siphoning files from local network FTP servers."

Not sure if this is related to what you guys are talking about, but just a reminder of one of my favorite subjects.

HOW PETER THIEL’S PALANTIR HELPED THE NSA SPY ON THE WHOLE WORLD

DONALD TRUMP HAS inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand the sprawling American spy apparatus, already vulnerable to abuse, is disturbing enough on its own.

But the outlook is even worse considering Trump’s vast preference for private sector expertise and new strategic friendship with Silicon Valley billionaire investor Peter Thiel, whose controversial (and opaque) company Palantir has long sought to sell governments an unmatched power to sift and exploit information of any kind.

Thiel represents a perfect nexus of government clout with the kind of corporate swagger Trump loves. The Intercept can now reveal that Palantir has worked for years to boost the global dragnet of the NSA and its international partners, and was in fact co-created with American

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But how do you make so much data comprehensible for human spies? As the additional documents published with this article demonstrate, Palantir sold its services to make one of the most powerful surveillance systems ever devised even more powerful, bringing clarity and slick visuals to an ocean of surveillance data.