In the
latest complication for the “Russiagate” scandal, a new analysis
has suggested that files and email stolen from the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) were copied to a USB drive by someone with
physical access to a computer that had DNC server access, indicating
that the committee’s records were not hacked remotely by foreign
actors, as has been alleged.
The DNC’s
stolen files were published by the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” whose
name is an homage to the Romanian hacker Guccifer, who gained
notoriety for hacking the Bush and Rockefeller families among other
U.S. government officials.
Guccifer
2.0, despite professing that he is a Romanian and affiliated with no
government, was cited as an agent of Russian military intelligence by
the private cyber security firm Crowdstrike, which was hired by the
DNC to investigate the hack.
However, an
independent investigator working under the pseudonym “The
Forensicator” has released a new analysis of the metadata found in
the files published by Guccifer 2.0.
The analysis
shows that the files, published as a .7z archive file, were
transferred from the server at a speed of 23 MB/second, leading the
investigator to conclude that it was “unlikely that this initial
data transfer could have been done remotely over the Internet.”
The
investigator also found that the copying of the files from the DNC
servers took place either over a local high-speed network (LAN) or by
someone who had physical access to the computer where the data was
stored.
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