Russian Hack Attribution Debate

There is a fair amount of public evidence lying around tying the hacks to Russia or at minimum Russians, including CrowdStrike's recent report about Ukrainian artillery. Considering that, it seems more likely that US intelligence has their own evidence, as they claim, than that they're simply making things up (at the risk of substantial embarrassment).

I'm surprised the author says:> HSI is not disclosing the name of the private company in Hawaii targeted, the country where the suspect was arrested or the name of the suspect.and then directly after that implies that Russia is behind the attack:> While it is likely we will never know who attempted the breach, it is clear that the security of our cables are of key interest of the great power adversaries. and this wouldn't be the first time Russia has been linked to a cab

Point 7 wasn't that the hack took place or the matter of who did it, it's the three-letter-agencies publicly accusing Russia of it. They did so because a) they believe it's provably true, or b) ???.

Haven't the NSA already said they believe it was the Russians? As you suggest, they would be the ones to know.

This comment seems to assume you think Russia was responsible for the hacks/leaks... ?

The intelligence agencies looked at the evidence and claim it was the Russians, and somehow tied it back to the Russian government.The NSA leak weeks later that confirmed sophisticated and documented techniques for making hacks appear to come from somewhere else (e.g. by using existing known-Russian C&C servers) is unrelated, and it's apparently unfathomable to think anyone else would be able to use the same techniques.Also, none of us have ever read history books, which are full

I've read those reports, and I did not find the evidence particularly convincing. Much of it was of the type "if you want to make it look like Russia did this, what metadata should we conveniently leave lying around?"IIRC the major points of evidence were a Cyrillic character set attached to an SSH session, and Russian IP addresses connecting to a VPN website.This is hardly substantial evidence.And don't fool yourself - these "private firms" have no interes

This is a big story, and it seems curious why it isn't on the front page of HN.Also weird are the comments alleging this is really some US spy op, and not the Russian state.Russia has the motive and means and unless other evidence comes to light, it seems likely that they are behind it.

There is no hard evidence that Russia is involved. Representatives of well-known internet security firms have stated that they believe the attack comes from the Russian government, but have nothing to provide other than their professional opinion (which is not based on specific data afaik).The Russia myth comes from everyone repeating each other and pretending like it's fact. I don't really think Americans think of Russia as the big boogeyman anymore so that whole propaganda spiel i

We have no proof any of these hacks were orchestrated by the Russian government. The 'security experts' have traced it back to a Russian VPN service, of which someone could have hacked and make themselves look like they were coming out of Russia.It disturbs me that so many intelligent people in the IT community know this and stay silent because it makes Trump look bad.Not to mention the fact that the content of the emails shows major collusion between the DNC and the mainstream