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China accused of hacking Ukraine days before Russian invasion
The Times of London ^ | Friday April 01 2022, 5.40pm BST | Maxim Tucker

Posted on 04/01/2022 11:36:49 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

China staged a huge cyberattack on Ukraine’s military and nuclear facilities in the build-up to Russia’s invasion, according to intelligence memos obtained by The Times.

More than 600 websites belonging to the defence ministry in Kyiv and other institutions suffered thousands of hacking attempts which were co-ordinated by the Chinese government, according to Ukraine’s security service, the SBU.

The spy agency revealed that, in an apparent sign of complicity in the invasion, Chinese attacks started before the end of the Winter Olympics and peaked on February 23, the day before Russian troops and tanks crossed the border.

The SBU said China’s attacks sought to infiltrate targets ranging from border defence forces to the national bank and railway authority. They were designed to steal data and explore ways to shut down or disrupt vital defence and civilian infrastructure.

Russia also tried to cripple Ukraine’s computer networks and compromise government websites before invading, but the SBU said that Chinese attacks could be distinguished by the trademark tools and methods of the cyberwarfare unit of the People’s Liberation Army.

Asked if Britain’s intelligence services were aware of the alleged Chinese hacks, a government spokesman told The Times: “The National Cyber Security Centre is investigating these allegations with our international partners.”

US intelligence sources indicated that the information about a Chinese cyberattack on Ukrainian government facilities before the Russian invasion was accurate. The Chinese embassy did not respond to a request for comment.

Beijing has refused to condemn President Putin for invading Ukraine. Analysts said that China could be punished with western sanctions if it was proven to be supporting the war.

Soon afterwards, according to the SBU, the Ukrainian government noticed a spike in computer network exploitation (CNE) attacks, which are typically used for reconnaissance and espionage.

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1 posted on 04/01/2022 11:36:49 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: marcusmaximus; Paul R.; Bruce Campbells Chin; PIF; ProtectOurFreedom; familyop; MercyFlush; ...

Ukraine ping


2 posted on 04/01/2022 11:37:31 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei
Possibilities
3 posted on 04/01/2022 11:44:05 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Zhang Fei

Are we going to go to war with China now?


4 posted on 04/01/2022 11:52:11 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Zhang Fei

How do we know it wasn’t the CIA who hacked Ukraine for purposes of attempting to bury/destroy all the Hunter/Biden corruption/evidence?


5 posted on 04/01/2022 11:55:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Throwing a bloody steak out in front of the local neocons?  thinking face winking face
6 posted on 04/01/2022 11:56:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: dragnet2

How do we know it wasn’t the CIA who hacked Ukraine for purposes of attempting to bury/destroy all the Hunter/Biden corruption/evidence?

They'd have to hack Russia, since that's where all the corruption leads. Moscow Joe was paid by Putin through Burisma, which is owned by one of Putin’s cronies, Zlochevsky, who left Ukraine along with Putin’s puppet, Yanukovich, after the Maidan Revolution.

Moscow Joe was also given a leg up towards being elected because Putin made sure Trump was up to his eyeballs in alligators for the entire length of his tenure through the Russian collusion frame-up. Igor Danchenko, the guy who was arrested over his role in fabricating the Steele dossier, is Russian. He appears to be a Russian agent planted by Putin inside the Democratic party.

One of the ways you discredit your enemy is by planting evidence that suggests he is your paid agent. That was Danchenko’s assignment within the Democratic party - to help stick it to Trump.

7 posted on 04/02/2022 12:00:08 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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I bet the CIA could easily spoof their hack making it appear the Chinese did it. They go in on a search and destroy, looking for anything connected to the Bidens.


8 posted on 04/02/2022 12:02:31 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I’d bet the rent corruption evidence exists regarding the Bidens, within Ukraine.


9 posted on 04/02/2022 12:05:33 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I'm really not buying all that.

They'd have to hack Russia, since that's where all the corruption leads.

Btw, Ukraine is well known for being one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.

10 posted on 04/02/2022 12:10:44 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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says warmongering Murdoch Times of London via their baby-faced “writer” Maxim Tucker. you can find pics of him online.

Guardian UK: Profile: Maxim Tucker
Maxim Tucker is a Ukraine-based journalist. He has been published in the Guardian, the Times, Newsweek and Politico Europe. He previously worked as Amnesty International’s campaigner on Ukraine and the South Caucasus and has spent most of the past six years working on and in the former Soviet Union
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/maximtucker


11 posted on 04/02/2022 12:13:11 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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[I’d bet the rent corruption evidence exists regarding the Bidens, within Ukraine.]


If this existed, why wouldn’t the Russians grab it and make it public? Because Moscow Joe is really owned by Putin.


12 posted on 04/02/2022 12:15:05 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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[Btw, Ukraine is well known for being one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. ]


Given that Putin is worth $200b, Russia would have to be the most corrupt. Fact is - Russia has a lot more money to offer the Bidens. And it’s not really a big stretch to get the US to help a country like Ukraine that’s being invaded. Whereas to help an invader like Russia - that’s a big ask. That’s why Putin needs to bribe Moscow Joe, and Ukraine doesn’t.

Ukraine’s economy ($150b) is 1/10 the size of Russia’s ($1.5t). Its population is 1/3.

Saudi Arabia produces the same amount of oil as Russia. Saudi Arabia’s economy ($750b) is 1/2 the size of Russia’s. Assuming that Saudi oil production accounts (with multiplier effects) for its entire economic output, Russia’s economy is 5x Ukraine’s just as a result of oil production. Then there’s natural gas, gold, nickel, platinum, palladium, diamonds, tungsten, titanium, et al. This mineral wealth is why Putin has a $200b personal fortune.

If you take out natural resource extraction, Russia’s economy is probably the same size as Ukraine’s. Basically, Russia is a Christian Saudi Arabia, except you can grow crops in Russia, whereas the Saudi desert is literally barren.


13 posted on 04/02/2022 12:19:12 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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If this existed, why wouldn’t the Russians grab it and make it public?

Could it be they haven't found it yet, hence a wide scale hack to find it. Or is it possible involved Ukrainians are holding out for the highest bidder?

China, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S.

So much corruption and no one to trust.

14 posted on 04/02/2022 12:21:25 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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[ Could it be they haven’t found it yet, hence a wide scale hack to find it. Or is it possible involved Ukrainians are holding out for the highest bidder?

China, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S.

So much corruption and no one to trust. ]


You can always trust Russia to tell you the truth. C’mon, man - would Putin lie? Dubya looked into Putin’s eyes and got a sense of his soul. Just think of Putin as Russia’s George Washington. He cannot tell a lie. No way he inserted Igor Danchenko into the Democrat party to smear Trump. Nosirreebob - that Putin is a straight arrow Boy Scout.


15 posted on 04/02/2022 12:28:15 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Dubya looked into Putin’s eyes and got a sense of his soul.

Good grief...That open border globalist poser was probably looking in a mirror.

16 posted on 04/02/2022 12:30:35 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

[Good grief...That open border globalist poser was probably looking in a mirror. ]


Putin’s a globalist, too. As is Xi. Putin looks at a globe, and he sees “Russia” on the entire thing. Xi looks at one and has a similar thought, only his globe reads “China”. They are traditional globalists - Alexander would have understood them both.


17 posted on 04/02/2022 12:42:21 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

China is now a combatant.


18 posted on 04/02/2022 4:10:50 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Zhang Fei

Apparently it worked so well that the Russians were compelled to give up on conquering an intact, functional fruit-basket of a nation and instead decided to bombard it into ruins out of spite.


19 posted on 04/02/2022 4:22:47 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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I looked into Putin’s eyes and saw a Communist.


20 posted on 04/02/2022 5:13:02 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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