DNC Hacker 'Guccifer 2.0' Positively Identified as Russian Operative: The Daily Beast

The person behind the infamous hack of the DNC emails in the run-up to the 2016 US Presidential elections was revealed to be a shadowy entity called 'Guccifer 2.0' when theyclaimed responsibility for the incident in June 2016.

Challenge to exist a 'Lonely Hacker', Guccifer tried to dissociate themselves from Russia past claiming to exist a native Romanaian. Even as many actual Romanians raised serious doubts virtually those claims by pointing out Guccifer'south unusual, and often incorrect, usage of the language, doubts remained virtually the real identity of the hacker.

At present, The Daily Beast says in an sectional study that Guccifer 2.0 is definitely not a 'native Romanaian solitary hacker' afterward all. Co-ordinate to the United states-based blog, US investigators take gathered definitive evidence that he is an officer of Russia's military intelligence advisers (GRU), as has often been claimed by many intelligence agencies in the US and around the world. The publication goes on to state that the attribution has "resulted from a fleeting but critical sideslip-up in GRU tradecraft".

While circumstantial evidence had always pointed towards Guccifer 2.0 existence a Russian government amanuensis, the Usa investigators had struggled until now to definitively replenish evidence of his Kremlin connections, even though they always believed he was a GRU officer working out of the bureau's HQ on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow.

In pop culture they say even the smartest criminals make a mistake, and that's exactly what seems to have happened with Guccifer 2.0, exposing his identity as a GRU operative.

The story further states Guccifer 2.0 once failed to activate his VPN client before logging on to an unidentified American social media site, leaving behind "a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol accost" in the server logs of company, helping investigators to definitively unearth his truthful identity.

The website, however, did not reveal the actual identity of Guccifer 2.0, saying that it didn't receive that info from its sources. The hacked DNC emails were said to exist a catalyst to the loss of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, leading to Donald Trump'due south eventual win. The Russian propaganda machinery backside the controversial president of the US was so far only linked marginally to the DNC hacks, merely the proof acquired past the report leaves little doubt about the Russian country-backed nature of the hacks.

Source: https://beebom.com/guccifer-2-russian-operative-daily-beast/

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