Guccifer 2.0 Was Always Sloppy....

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Forgetting to turn on a VPN, exposing the real origin of the operation was certainly sloppy. But Guccifer 2.0 was always sloppy.

When he posted stolen documents to prove he really hacked the DNC, Guccifer 2.0 forgot to remove metadata that revealed he used a computer set to Russian language when handling the PDFs. The hacker also used a cracked version of Office 2007 particularly popular in Russia. Throughout his blog posts and Tweets, his English was not not only painfully bad at a grammatical level, but it also didn’t really paint a credible motive or story behind the character.

After we called him out for claiming to be Romanian, Guccifer 2.0 slowly got better. He stopped giving interviews, his posts became more polished, the docs he released didn’t contain any revealing metadata. It was clear, even from the outside, that the operation became more professionalized as the months went by. At the time, we didn’t know how that happened, but The Daily Beast reports that was because an older, more experienced officer took over.

But at that point, in many ways, it was too late.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3ygmp/guccifer-2-russian-military-intelligence-gru-vpn