The attempted Clinton-CIA coup against Donald Trump

[David Guyatt]

Sorry Tom but the Crowdstrike report is regarded as a joke in the hacking and infosec community. It is ridiculous and not taken seriously except by the usual suspects at the NYT and WaPo.
Just one issue about it:
https://medium.com/@jeffreycarr/the-yand....sro8tmxhk

https://medium.com/@jeffreycarr/az-and-i....c9frekwhr

Edited to add:
The hacking groups you referenced do exist Tom. Russia has tons of hackers. Some state run some just the proverbial kiddies in the basement. So does the USA. So does China. So does Israel. So does Germany. So does Iceland. It is a wild and borderless world out there. Lots of people exploring it for all sorts of reasons. Almost all websites/servers get lots of traffic from all sorts of cyber entities. Professional and canny players know how to do 2 things. One leave no traces of their own presence. 2. Make it look like some one else. If it was a 'Russian' hack by the Russian government they would be smart enough no to use IP addresses that tract to Moscow and keep Moscow business hours. Even I can use a VPN. Can only imagine the resource available to state players if they want to make mischief.

On the Crowdstrike "analysis" Sam Biddle's article at the Intercept it up pretty well:

For one, a lot of the so-called evidence above is no such thing. CrowdStrike, whose claims of Russian responsibility are perhaps most influential throughout the media, says APT 28/Fancy Bear "is known for its technique of registering domains that closely resemble domains of legitimate organizations they plan to target." But this isn't a Russian technique any more than using a computer is a Russian technique misspelled domains are a cornerstone of phishing attacks all over the world. Is Yandex the Russian equivalent of Google some sort of giveaway? Anyone who claimed a hacker must be a CIA agent because they used a Gmail account would be laughed off the internet. We must also acknowledge that just because Guccifer 2.0 pretended to be Romanian, we can't conclude he works for the Russian government it just makes him a liar.

Source

Placing any reliance on the handles "Fancy Bear" and "Cozy Bear" as indicators they are Russian involvement is ludicrous, of course. Using that irrationality I could just as easily finer point at Elton John as a Russian agent because he used the handle "Sugar Bear" in his song "Someone Saved my Life Tonight". The fact that Sugar Bear was the nickname of Elton John's now deceased friend Long John Baldry reveals just how ludicrous and grasping at straws this idiocy is. But hey, I guess they had their brief and had to justify their invoice.