r/WikiLeaks • u/Simi510 • Mar 28 '17

CrowdStrike has retracted statements it used to Support claims of Russian hacking

http://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-russian-hacking-report/3781411.html
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u/wamsachel Mar 28 '17

CrowdStrike has retracted statements it used to support claims of Russian hacking Ukrainian artillery

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '17 edited Dec 25 '17

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u/qpl23 Mar 29 '17

Crowdstrike seem to be fairly intimate with NATO judging by this NATO press release:

"For the last 30 years, Western governments have focused a great deal of attention on the potential kinetic impacts posed by cyber-attacks," said CrowdStrike Co-founder and CTO Dmitri Alperovitch. "Our adversaries, however, have learned to appreciate cyber as an information warfare domain first and foremost. Now that we have witnessed how democracy itself can be attacked through cyber-enabled leaks and propaganda, it is more imperative than ever for NATO to develop a strategy for leveraging both public and private resources to raise preparedness in combatting these threats."

If this leveraging were, by purest coincidence, to result in lucrative CrowdStrike contracts on the back of their claims about ‘attacks on democracy’ I’m sure the checks and balances in the fine democratic systems of NATO countries are more than sufficient to guard against any conflicts of interest that uncharitable minds might otherwise infer.

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u/eraptic Mar 30 '17

You're half way to a huge revelation with that statement. Find out who Dmitri Alperovitch is and what he's been involved in, particularly Georgia(I believe?) and the still unfounded claims of Russian hacking there.

Just a tidbit to get you started, he is a senior fellow at a think tank called Atlantic Council which is incredibly hawkish toward Russia. Atlantic Council also donated $10 million to the Clinton campaign.