[Brad from Tennessee]

The veracity of this story is highly syspect.

[Brad from Tennessee]

This is front page above the fold at Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_electrichack-810pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.a49a34aea9f5

[Dalberg-Acton]

The press will print whatever Obama wants.

[delete306]

Or it is real malware and a false flag.

[Innovative]

Sure they did. Putin personally came to my house and turned off my electricity.(just kidding)

They are just trying to make it sound plausible that the Russians hacked the US elections to help Trump.

They must think that most of the American people are complete idiots and will believe them.

[kvanbrunt2]

The veracity of this story is highly syspect.>>> Let’s say some one ran the yara and the signature for the apt28 and/or apt29 showed up. What this actually means is that some idiot government employee opened a phishing email and installed malware on his laptop which then propagating itself unto the utility computer systems.

[Oztrich Boy]

[dr_lew]

The veracity of this story is highly syspect.

Veracity is multidimensional ... really ... I've been thinking about that.

Here's my model scenario.

Head Honcho asks his Minions, "Did the Russians hack us? I think you should check it out." ( already a hint. ) Minions check it out and say ( taking the hint ) "We can't find anything." Honcho says, "maybe you aren't looking hard enough." So now Minions really get the message. "OK, we did find some things that might be it."

Then THAT'S IT! The Russians did hack us! .. a full and careful investigation has revealed!

[dgbrown]

Now the Russians are for Bernie?

[dila813]

I believe them, but what I don’t believe is they were targeted

If you read their profile, they were trying to attack everyone who is stupid enough to click their links.

They were sending thousands of mails, anywhere they can find an email address.

These guys were looking to make mass money.

[Southack]

Malware was just on a laptop...unconnected to the Electric Grid.

Repeat: Electric Grid was NOT hacked:

https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/815028706095886336

[a fool in paradise]

How did the Ruskies make it look like DHS was hacking Georgia’s election computers?

[odds]

Know what? It seems if there were no Russians or any other conceivable ‘enemies’, some would be deliberately created and produced just to scare us, keep us paranoid, discuss and fall in line.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It seems that the antivirus program on one of the computers at the facility found something and quarantined it.

[justa-hairyape]

Heck got hacked by russians myself about 8 years ago. Reported it here. Was a group in Denver. They were nabbed by the FBI. Just because you was hacked by Russians, it dont mean you was hacked by the Russian government. They were just a gang of theives.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Complete BS. This can be refuted in so many ways, it’s not even worth doing.

I don’t want to sound tin foil hattish, but this kind of blatant propaganda makes me wonder if there isn’t a nasty false flag coming our way.

[A_perfect_lady]

The Russians are coming!! The Russians are coming!! Don’t worry about Islamic terrorism, this is FAR, FAR more SERIOUS!! The Russians are coming!! -DNC Mouthpiece

[lgjhn23]

False flag.
Coming too quick on the heels of everything else.

[Cementjungle]

malware was discovered on a laptop that was not connected to the grid's operations

The security guard at the place watches porn at night on the department laptop, and he clicked on something he shouldn't have.

[Chode]

kinda like Stuxnet is "associated" with the US...

[DesertRhino]

Ohhhhh....I saw this movie. They came in a submarine, right? Cause yeah, a Vermont utility.....very very high on their attack list. /s