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http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-russia-bank-2-billion/

A trove of hacked emails published by WikiLeaks in 2012 excludes records of a €2 billion transaction between the Syrian regime and a government-owned Russian bank, according to leaked U.S. court documents obtained by the Daily Dot.

WikiLeaks has become an ever-prominent force in the 2016 presidential election through its publishing of tens of thousands of emails, voicemails, and documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee by hackers that U.S. authorities and cybersecurity experts believe are linked to the Russian government. The transparency organization, which boasts of a commitment to use “cryptography to protect human rights” against repressive regimes, has faced criticism from supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and praise from Republican opponent Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The court records, placed under seal by a Manhattan federal court and obtained by the Daily Dot through an anonymous source, show in detail how a group of hacktivists breached the Syrian government’s networks on the eve of the country’s civil war and extracted emails about major bank transactions the Syrian regime was hurriedly making amid a host of economic sanctions. In the spring of 2012, most of the emails found their way into a WikiLeaks database.

But one set of emails in particular didn’t make it into the cache of documents published by WikiLeaks in July 2012 as “The Syria Files,” despite the fact that the hackers themselves were ecstatic at their discovery. The correspondence, which WikiLeaks has denied withholding, describes “more than” €2 billion ($2.4 billion, at current exchange rates) moving from the Central Bank of Syria to Russia’s VTB Bank.

“Basically, we have access to several internal routers, the main telecom gateway in Syria, the phone infrastructure to some extent, and yes, possibly television,” that hacker announced in a chatroom, speaking to fellow members of RevoluSec, a group of pro-revolution activists who repeatedly carried out sophisticated cyberattacks against the Syrian government for roughly a year.

“To be honest, people have been trying to hack these for years,” a representative of RevoluSec said of Syrian websites in a September 2011 interview with Al Jazeera. “But we were extremely thorough in searching for vulnerabilities, and when it came down to it, there were a ton.”

“We also have a team full of extremely knowledgeable people who are very, very good at what they do, while the system administrators in Syria, it seems, are not. Their internet security was lax, and as a result, anyone looking hard enough for vulnerabilities was able to find what they wanted,” the RevoluSec member said.

More than 500 pages of sealed documents reveal in extraordinary detail how a handful of activists seized near-total control of Syria’s internet and then employed that power to conduct real-time surveillance on many of the nation’s top ministry officials. The leaked records, amassed during the U.S. government investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and affiliated hackers worldwide, likewise confirm RevoluSec to be the source of “The Syria Files,” a cache of more than 2 million Syrian government emails published by WikiLeaks over the summer of 2012.

The leaked documents offer evidence that not every email intercepted by RevoluSec found its way into WikiLeaks’ database, despite the fervor of the hackers who wished them exposed.

 

[faisal233]

No puppet, no puppet...

 

[Vestal]

It's OK. They accomplished their goal.



,............

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

It's not even debatable at this point since these are all facts of this election year.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Jesus. You would think that the CIA would launch counter cyber terrorism against Wikileaks.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

They are not Russian goons. Show me more evidence.

jk btw

 

[Hierophant]

it was fun to watch wikileaks dodge all questions why all the leaks they could find were for the dems and they could literally not find any for the GOP in their AMA a few days ago

 

[Jeels]

No, YOU'RE the puppet!

 

[RuGalz]

I never understand why so many people take wikileaks as gospels since it's very single sided story usually and there's no way to know if the documents are cherry picked.

 

[Crayon]

I forgot who posted these links. I think the user "Slime".

Aleksandr Dugin.

His book Foundations of Geo Politics which is pretty important to the russian government. Look a the little parts about the uk, ukraine, and usa.

Putin fuckin around with brexit like he fucked around with our election.

Sharing these links because I found them very relevant.

 

[bodyboarder]

Jesus. You would think that the CIA would launch counter cyber terrorism against Wikileaks.

They would be, just quietly.

 

[IamDodongo]

Americans got played hard as fuck this election

 

[Reverend Funk]

Hey everybody look how fuckin stupid we are

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Remember, the ultra lefties also embraced this group, right along with the alt-right. (and Sean Hannity)

 

[inner-G]

Put your money into rubles