Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby Harvey » Fri Aug 20, 2021 2:11 pm

Crosspost: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21028&start=15#p697161


PufPuf93 » Fri Aug 20, 2021 4:37 pm wrote:Not sure where to place this but here will work.

Date Issued: Friday, August 13, 2021 02:00 pm ET

Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland

The Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a new National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin regarding the current heightened threat environment across the United States. The Homeland continues to face a diverse and challenging threat environment leading up to and following the 20th Anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks as well religious holidays we assess could serve as a catalyst for acts of targeted violence. These threats include those posed by domestic terrorists, individuals and groups engaged in grievance-based violence, and those inspired or motivated by foreign terrorists and other malign foreign influences. These actors are increasingly exploiting online forums to influence and spread violent extremist narratives and promote violent activity. Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions.


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Issued: August 13, 2021 02:00 pm
Expires: November 11, 2021 02:00 pm

Additional Details

Through the remainder of 2021, racially- or ethnically-motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists will remain a national threat priority for the United States. These extremists may seek to exploit the emergence of COVID-19 variants by viewing the potential re-establishment of public health restrictions across the United States as a rationale to conduct attacks. Pandemic-related stressors have contributed to increased societal strains and tensions, driving several plots by domestic violent extremists, and they may contribute to more violence this year.

Additionally, leading up to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula recently released its first English-language copy of Inspire magazine in over four years, which demonstrates that foreign terrorist organizations continue efforts to inspire U.S.-based individuals susceptible to violent extremist influences.

Historically, mass-casualty domestic violent extremist attacks linked to RMVEs have targeted houses of worship and crowded commercial facilities or gatherings. Some RMVEs advocate via online platforms for a race war and have stated that civil disorder provides opportunities to engage in violence in furtherance of ideological objectives. The reopening of institutions, including schools, as well as several dates of religious significance over the next few months, could also provide increased targets of opportunity for violence though there are currently no credible or imminent threats identified to these locations.

Foreign and domestic threat actors, to include foreign intelligence services, international terrorist groups and domestic violent extremists, continue to introduce, amplify, and disseminate narratives online that promote violence, and have called for violence against elected officials, political representatives, government facilities, law enforcement, religious communities or commercial facilities, and perceived ideologically-opposed individuals. There are also continued, non-specific calls for violence on multiple online platforms associated with DVE ideologies or conspiracy theories on perceived election fraud and alleged reinstatement, and responses to anticipated restrictions relating to the increasing COVID cases.

Ideologically motivated violent extremists fueled by personal grievances and extremist ideological beliefs continue to derive inspiration and obtain operational guidance through the consumption of information shared in certain online communities. This includes information regarding the use of improvised explosive devices and small arms.
Violent extremists may use particular messaging platforms or techniques to obscure operational indicators that provide specific warning of a pending act of violence.
Law enforcement have expressed concerns that the broader sharing of false narratives and conspiracy theories will gain traction in mainstream environments, resulting in individuals or small groups embracing violent tactics to achieve their desired objectives. With a diverse array of threats, DHS is concerned that increased outbreaks of violence in some locations, as well as targeted attacks against law enforcement, may strain local resources.

Nation-state adversaries have increased efforts to sow discord. For example, Russian, Chinese and Iranian government-linked media outlets have repeatedly amplified conspiracy theories concerning the origins of COVID-19 and effectiveness of vaccines; in some cases, amplifying calls for violence targeting persons of Asian descent.

How We Are Responding

DHS will continue to identify and evaluate calls for violence, including online activity associated with the spread of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and false narratives, by known or suspected threat actors and provide updated information, as necessary.

DHS continues to encourage the public to maintain awareness of the evolving threat environment and report suspicious activity.
DHS is coordinating with state and local law enforcement and public safety partners to maintain situational awareness of potential violence in their jurisdictions and maintain open lines of communication with federal partners.

DHS is also advancing authoritative sources of information to debunk and, when possible, preempt false narratives and intentional disinformation, and providing educational materials to promote resilience to the risks associated with interacting with and spreading disinformation, conspiracy theories and false narratives.

More broadly, DHS remains committed to identifying and preventing terrorism and targeted violence while protecting the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of all persons.

How You Can Help

Report suspicious activity and threats of violence, including online threats, to local law enforcement, FBI Field Offices, or local Fusion Center.

If you know someone who is struggling with mental health issues or may be a danger to themselves or others, support is available.

Be Prepared and Stay Informed

Be prepared for emergency situations and remain aware of circumstances that may place you at risk.

Maintain digital media literacy to recognize and build resilience to false and harmful narratives.

Make note of your surroundings and the nearest security personnel.

Government agencies will provide details about emerging threats as information is identified. The public is encouraged to listen to local authorities and public safety officials.

If You See Something, Say Something®. Report suspicious activity to local law enforcement or call 911.

https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/natio ... st-13-2021
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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby Harvey » Sat Aug 21, 2021 6:01 pm

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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby DrEvil » Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:31 pm

Not really surprising. They had two years since the last damning infosec report and did fuck all to fix things. My guess is they don't have the budget or the competence. The guy who set it up retired ten years ago, but it works right now so nobody touch nothing!

And even when it does work properly there's always some middle manager asshole who insists you carve out an exception for him so he doesn't have to be inconvenienced by all this security voodoo when he wants to log in from his laptop on his boat. The same guy who clicks every phishing email that comes along and calls you up at two in the morning because his computer is full of porn ads and malware and he has no idea how it got there.
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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby thrulookingglass » Sun Aug 22, 2021 4:13 pm

I wouldn't trust anyone at Faux News to give me the proper time of day. Cyber attacks are the perfect vector for false flag events. Prove this happened. And that the "threat" was external.
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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby Harvey » Sun Aug 22, 2021 4:53 pm

thrulookingglass » Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:13 pm wrote:I wouldn't trust anyone at Faux News to give me the proper time of day. Cyber attacks are the perfect vector for false flag events. Prove this happened. And that the "threat" was external.


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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby DrEvil » Sun Aug 22, 2021 6:19 pm

Valid points, but at least the part about them getting a D in security is true:

https://arstechnica.com/information-tec ... rsecurity/

The State Department and 3 other US agencies earn a D for cybersecurity

Two years after a damning cybersecurity report, auditors find little has improved.

Dan Goodin - 8/4/2021, 3:17 AM

Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that four of them earned grades of D, three got Cs, and only one received a B in a report issued Tuesday by a US Senate Committee.

“It is clear that the data entrusted to these eight key agencies remains at risk,” the 47-page report stated. “As hackers, both state-sponsored and otherwise, become increasingly sophisticated and persistent, Congress and the executive branch cannot continue to allow PII and national security secrets to remain vulnerable.”

The report, issued by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, comes two years after a separate report found systemic failures by the same eight federal agencies in complying with federal cybersecurity standards. The earlier report found that during the decade spanning 2008 to 2018, the agencies failed to properly protect personally identifiable information, maintain a list of all hardware and software used on agency networks, and install vendor-supplied security patches in a timely manner.

The 2019 report also highlighted that the agencies were operating legacy systems that were costly to maintain and hard to secure. All eight agencies—including the Social Security Administration and the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Education—failed to protect sensitive information they stored or maintained.

Tuesday’s report, titled Federal Cybersecurity: America’s Data Still at Risk, analyzed security practices by the same agencies for 2020. It found that only one agency had earned a grade of B for its cybersecurity practices last year.

“What this report finds is stark,” the authors wrote. “Inspectors general identified many of the same issues that have plagued Federal agencies for more than a decade. Seven agencies made minimal improvements, and only DHS managed to employ an effective cybersecurity regime for 2020. As such, this report finds that these seven Federal agencies still have not met the basic cybersecurity standards necessary to protect America’s sensitive data.”

The authors assigned the following grades:

Department of State D
Department of Transportation D
Department of Education D
Social Security Administration D
Department of Agriculture C
Department of Health and Human Services C
Department of Housing and Urban Development C
Department of Homeland Security B

State Department systems, the auditors found, frequently operated without the required authorizations, ran software (including Microsoft Windows) that was no longer supported, and failed to install security patches in a timely manner.

The department’s user management system came under particular criticism because officials couldn’t provide documentation of user access agreements for 60 percent of sample employees that had access to the department’s classified network.

The auditors wrote:

This network contains data which if disclosed to an unauthorized person could cause “grave damage” to national security. Perhaps more troubling, State failed to shut off thousands of accounts after extended periods of inactivity on both its classified and sensitive but unclassified networks. According to the Inspector General, some accounts remained active as long as 152 days after employees quit, retired, or were fired. Former employees or hackers could use those unexpired credentials to gain access to State’s sensitive and classified information, while appearing to be an authorized user. The Inspector General warned that without resolving issues in this category, “the risk of unauthorized access is significantly increased.”


The Social Security Administration, meanwhile, suffered many of the same shortcomings, including a lack of authorization for many systems, use of unsupported systems, failure to Compile an Accurate and Comprehensive IT Asset Inventory, and Failure to Provide for the Adequate Protection of PII.

Details about the other departments are available in the report linked earlier.

The report comes seven months after the discovery of a supply chain attack that led to the compromise of nine federal agencies and about 100 private companies. In April, hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government breached multiple federal agencies by exploiting vulnerabilities in the Pulse Secure VPN.

For all of 2020, the White House reported 30,819 information security incidents across the federal government, an 8 percent increase from the prior year.



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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby Elvis » Sun Aug 22, 2021 10:19 pm

"Fox News. We chew. You swallow."


Same goes for the others, of course, but the Fox motto begs for it.
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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby Harvey » Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:26 am

To clarify, I'm pointing toward the specific amplification of certain signals within the matrix of general confusionism, priming populations to be receptive to certain specific ideas, in this case a 'cyber pandemic' to the degree that, subsequent to forthcoming events, populations will submit without serious protest to corporate/state actions, ostensibly in response to the new perceived threat. In this case I'm pointing to some of that signal, currently priming us to expect an event involving widespread damage to digital information systems. An imminent false flag event.

Depending on which alleged actors are identified, the 'remedial' actions are likely to involve further incentive to outlaw potentially democratising technologies, military police actions against specific categories of the population, outlawing of selected media outlets, general censorship, digital ID, loss of freedom of movement and the categorisation and intolerance of otherwise healthy democratic impulses such as environmentalism, plurality, equality, freedom of speech etc, etc, etc.

The "hard reset" that Wombat refers to up thread.

Witness the response to Covid19 and January 6th and the near total capitulation of populations to illogical and harmful but supposedly 'remedial' actions.

I assumed it was clear that what I am not doing is endorsing Rupert Murdoch, Fox Channel or mainstream media in total, which given what I've had to say about all three for the last decade should have been fucking obvious.
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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby Harvey » Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:30 pm

5, 4, 3, 2...
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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby norton ash » Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:34 pm

Definitely in the mail.
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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby drstrangelove » Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:23 pm

Just warming this thread up so it's good and ready to go.
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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby Grizzly » Sat Feb 26, 2022 1:52 am

Hillary Clinton just openly called for the United States government to conduct cyber attacks against Russia.



her greatest diplomatic accomplishment was getting mercenaries, like Blackwater and ilk into Ukraine under the Obomber era.

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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:02 am

@bridgietherease 13 hrs ago.

one fun thing to remember when they all start talking about dire "cyber attacks" is that a) WEF has been talking this up for years now ('Cyber Polygon' simulation etc) and b) Assange's Vault 7 release proved that CIA et al have tools to falsify attribution of any attack they want

https://twitter.com/bridgietherease/sta ... 1545613314


It was striking to see how casually they introduced the term false flag into polite circles recently. Suddenly that tinfoil hatters' trash talk was the stuff of solemn and respectable BBC and Guardian reports . "False flag attack? Oh yes, of course that's a thing! Bad Guys do it -- Nazis, for instance, and Russians. Here are Five Examples From History."
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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:15 am

The spooks chose the sly codeword "UMBRAGE" for a thing done in the shadows and bound to piss people off.

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Re: Countdown to Dark Winter 3.0: Cyber Pandemic Edition.

Postby Grizzly » Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:26 pm

https://www.idstrong.com/sentinel/the-nsa-hack-what-happened-to-nsa/
AND it's important to remember the NSA was hacked and those tools are now in the wild and being used. Or were they?
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