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McAfee claims Iran hacked the Democrats

by on24 October 2016


And North Korea did DYN

Colourful internet character John McAfee claims that Iran, and not Russia, hacked the Democratic National Committee.

McAfee has apparently been chatting to his Dark Web contacts and thinks it is Iran doing all the hacking. He claimed that while Russian hackers get more media attention, Iranian hackers are still very active.

Apparently the Iranians think that Trump would be ideal as a US president because he would be a destabilising influence.

McAfee said that if all evidence points to the Russians, then, with 100 percent certainty, it is not the Russians.

"Anyone who is capable of carrying out a hack of such sophistication is also capable, with far less effort than that involved in the hack, of hiding their tracks or making it appear that the hack came from some other quarter. The forensic tools used to assign culpability in a hack are well known, in the cybersecurity world, to be largely ineffective. They may, sometimes, correctly identify an unsophisticated 15-year-old as the source of a hack, such as the teenager who hacked the FBI less than a year ago. But they are completely ineffective against large, sophisticated groups of hackers such as those run by the Russian State," he said.

He thinks that North Korea was responsible for the DYN hack and thinks it is Bureau 121, a North Korean cyberwarfare agency with almost 2,000 state sponsored hackers in the group.

McAfee said they certainly have the capability and if it's true then forensic analysis will point to "either Russia, China, or some group within the U.S."

"Bureau 121 left trails to an American company that offers services to counter DDoS attacks. The company was not named. When found, I guarantee that the company might have had cause to launch the attack. This is how sophisticated hacks work."

Last modified on 24 October 2016
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