This Sounds More Like It - CIA Hackers Could Be Behind Pipeline Attack

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Cybersecurity tycoon Kaspersky claims CIA hackers could actually  be behind US Colonial Pipeline attack blamed on Russian group     

14 May, 2021



Russia had absolutely nothing to do with  Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, despite Biden's claims to contrary, says  Kremlin spokesman

A cyberattack that crippled fuel supplies on the East Coast of  the US and sent gas prices soaring could have been an inside job  conducted by American spooks, rather than foreign hackers, a prominent  Russian IT expert has claimed. After a massive systems  failure caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down, Natalya Kaspersky,  the founder and former CEO of security software firm Kaspersky Lab, as  well as one of Russia's wealthiest women, made the explosive suggestions  in an interview with RIA Novosti on Friday. She alleges that the US'  top foreign intelligence agency, the CIA, has a crack team of digital  warriors who are able to masquerade as overseas hacking groups... At the time, USA Today said that the shadowy operatives "may have been cataloguing hacking methods from outside hackers, including in Russia, that would have allowed the agency to mask their identity by employing the method during espionage." 

Whenever you have a ready alibi, like the CIA always has in blaming other country's, you begin to seriously question it
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On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that the devastating blow to America's infrastructure had been dealt from abroad. "We do not believe the Russian government was involved in this attack, but we do have strong reason to believe that the criminals who did the attack are living in Russia, that's where it came from," he said. However, Kaspersky pointed to the list "of the countries under whose hacker groups this UMBRAGE is disguised – Russia, North Korea, China, Iran." She claimed that "therefore,  it cannot be said with certainty that the attack was carried out by a hacker group from Russia, and that it was not a provocation made themselves from there, or from some other country," ...

Cybersecurity tycoon Kaspersky claims CIA hackers could actually be behind US Colonial Pipeline attack blamed on Russian group — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
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