‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics

The Guardian (UK) ^ | March 30, 2023 | Luke Harding, Stiliyana Simeonova, Manisha Ganguly and Dan Sabbagh

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• Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war
  
• Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare
  
• Tools support hacking operations and attacks on infrastructure
  
• Documents linked to notorious Russian hacking group Sandworm
  

...Inside the six-storey building, a new generation is helping Russian military operations... The software engineers behind these systems are employees of NTC Vulkan. On the surface, it looks like a run-of-the-mill cybersecurity consultancy. However, a leak of secret files from the company has exposed its work bolstering Vladimir Putin’s cyberwarfare capabilities.

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Excerpted per FR policy.

This is a Guardian article summarizing the Vulkan files leak. As a starting point, from Wikipedia:

"The documents, numbering in their thousands, were leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung within days of the 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by a whistleblower who opposed that war,and were analysed by journalists from that publication and The Guardian, Le Monde and Washington Post, with several other media outlets, as part of a consortium led by Paper Trail Media and Der Spiegel. The consortium published the first details of its investigation on 30 March 2023."

"Five Western intelligence agencies and several independent cybersecurity experts authenticated the files."

The wikipedia page was started on March 30, 2023. What this all means, is that a insider in Russian internet warfare (cyberwar/cyberwarfare) leak a treasure trove of information A YEAR AGO to Western news services, and those news services, Western governments and intelligence services, have had this information for a year and kept quiet about it UNTIL NOW.

Questions, comments, informed criticisms, unrelated rants...

...cold sweating over the Internet from Russian IPs?

Tear Collection Kits available at poster's expense.

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Figuring out the truth amid the news media's narrative control is hard.

Attacking each other over headlines and sound bites is easy.

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So, we blew the Nord Stream pipelines. Ukraine has committed two Muslim-style bombings that targeted and killed two journalists and you're whining about this?

Take the hypocritical bullsh$t and stick it, Neocon Jr.

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