in all the madness that was yesterday, this story seems to have slipped through the cracks. if anyone wants to understand Russian state hacking, this is a great start.
regarding the hacker...
"Serhiy Demediuk, chief of the Ukranian Cyber Police...said he had made the witness available to the FBI, which has posted a full-time cybersecurity expert in Kiev as one of four bureau agents stationed at the US Embassy there."
regarding the Russian's accidentally exposing their hacking...
"in the cyberattack during the Ukranian election, what appears to have been a bungle by Channel 1, a Russian state television station, inadvertently implicated the government in Moscow.
Hackers had loaded onto a Ukranian election commission server a graphic mimicking the page for displaying results. This phony page showed a shocker of an outcome: an election win for a fiercely anti-Russian, ultraright candidate, Dmytro Yarosh. Mr Yarosh in reality received less than 1 percent of the vote.
The false result would have played into a Russian propaganda narrative that Ukraine today is ruled by hard-right, even fascist, figures.
The fake image was programmed to display when polls closed, at 8 pm, but a Ukrainian cybersecurity company, InfoSafe, discovered it just minutes earlier and unplugged the server.
State television in Russia nevertheless reported that Mr. Yarosh had won and broadcast the fake graphic, citing the election commission's website, even though the image had never appeared there."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/world/europe/russia-ukraine-malware-hacking-witness.html
regarding the hacker...
"Serhiy Demediuk, chief of the Ukranian Cyber Police...said he had made the witness available to the FBI, which has posted a full-time cybersecurity expert in Kiev as one of four bureau agents stationed at the US Embassy there."
regarding the Russian's accidentally exposing their hacking...
"in the cyberattack during the Ukranian election, what appears to have been a bungle by Channel 1, a Russian state television station, inadvertently implicated the government in Moscow.
Hackers had loaded onto a Ukranian election commission server a graphic mimicking the page for displaying results. This phony page showed a shocker of an outcome: an election win for a fiercely anti-Russian, ultraright candidate, Dmytro Yarosh. Mr Yarosh in reality received less than 1 percent of the vote.
The false result would have played into a Russian propaganda narrative that Ukraine today is ruled by hard-right, even fascist, figures.
The fake image was programmed to display when polls closed, at 8 pm, but a Ukrainian cybersecurity company, InfoSafe, discovered it just minutes earlier and unplugged the server.
State television in Russia nevertheless reported that Mr. Yarosh had won and broadcast the fake graphic, citing the election commission's website, even though the image had never appeared there."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/world/europe/russia-ukraine-malware-hacking-witness.html
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