If people only knew what a sad sack o shite that whole "Russians Hacked Us!" claim is... When the FBI/DHS released that little "how to be mistaken for a Russian hacker" pamphlet it took me five minutes to find a good selection of those toolkits, plus the author of the DarkEnergy RAT package (he's a Ukranian aeronautics student, goes by "Cr4sh". The five minutes was because the hounds wanted out. First search, malware archive on Github, the largest open-source software hub on the planet. I'm not really a hacker, I just enjoy stealing and doing bad things, but I do know the scene well and I've been soaking in it for 35 years. Oh, and if you pirated DIrecTV in the late 90's, you're welcome! :D

Here's some scene info for you. Russian hackers are buckaneers. They do what they do, get what they can get, and often their targets are things that they can sell along to the Kremlin who are willing buyers. It's a good system for all. Hackers get fed, Kremlin can keep an eye on them (they're usually anywhere from loosly associated with to tightly bound to the Russian mob), gives the Kremlin arms-length deniability, and the hackers get a bit of a free pass so long as they don't fuck with The Bear. Guicifer 1... he fucked with the bear. But the NSA knows all this of course, and of course has no interest in actually tracking down Fancy Bear or they'd oh, maybe see who's paying the bill at their service provider, seeing as they're based in San Diego or something like that...

https://fancybear.net/

Gosh reporters are smart ain't they! Still haven't figured out that Trump was completely flat broke at the end of last year, beginning of it too! Took me all of an evening going through his F.E.C. declaration, tracing companies back to Delaware P.O. boxes, listed assets of one dollar each! Riot! And not one of them bothered to question why the best hackers in the world couldn't get their shit together enough to find the current email list for the Clinton campaign, used lame Powershell script exploits (and failed!!!), didn't bother to update the BY DONATION level malware they used, forgot how to spoof an I.P. address, and seem to have completely forgotten that there are these things called VPN's.

I know exactly what it's like to be a man with two eyes in the kingdom of the blind... but they're so stupid, gods but they're so goddamn stupid!!!