WIFE: ARRESTED ALLEGED RUSSIAN HACKER 'LINKED TO TRUMP'S ELECTION WIN'

[orangecrush]

Source: AP - A.B.C. Chicago

MADRID -- An alleged Russian hacker has been detained in Spain at the request of American authorities, an arrest that set cybersecurity circles abuzz after a Russian broadcaster raised the possibility it was linked to the U.S. presidential election.

Pyotr Levashov was arrested Friday in Barcelona on a U.S. computer crimes warrant, according to a spokeswoman for Spain's National Court, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with court rules.....

... Such arrests aren't unusual - American authorities typically try to nab Russian cybercrime suspects abroad because of the difficulty involved in extraditing them from Russia - but Levashov's arrest drew immediate attention after his wife told Russia's RT broadcaster that he was linked to America's 2016 election hacking.

RT quoted Maria Levashova as saying that armed police stormed into their apartment in Barcelona overnight, keeping her and her friend locked in a room for two hours while they quizzed her husband. She said that when she spoke to her husband on the phone from the police station, he told her he was told that he had created a computer virus that was "linked to Trump's election win."





Read more: http://abc7chicago.com/news/wife-arrested-alleged-russian-hacker-linked-to-trumps-election-win/1856321/

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Trumps Russia ties investigation is not going away, no matter how much smoke and mirrors they put out there.

[Left-over]

1. Another piece of the puzzle.

[orangecrush]

4. Juatice is coming

For the coup planners.

[IdiotsforPalin]

2. Drip, drip, drip...........

[orangecrush]

7. The faucet

Just got looser

[furtheradu]

3. K & R..& thanks!

& heck NO, it's not going away. .WE won't let it!

[orangecrush]

6. "At the request of American authorities"

[furtheradu]

22. Hmmm! Ain't that interestin'!

I do get these lil glimmers (of HOPE? !) that there is more going on in the way of JUSTICE, than WE can see right now. It WILL come. .
"We'll see it when we believe it!"
...&we do OUR part!

[orangecrush]

48. Absolutely

Do not let these bastards demoralize you.

[Botany]

5. " .... that he had created a computer virus that was "linked to Trump's election win."

This is Bigly

[orangecrush]

9. I am curious

As to how a virus could be used in such a way.

Perhaps someone knowledgable might venture a guess.

[aggiesal]

11. This has to be done to manipulate the vote count ...

No way this can be use to suppress the votes.

[orangecrush]

16. Interesting

Thanks!

[d_r]

27. (assuming this is true)

it could be a virus to plant bots on to people's computers, and the botnet was used for twitter, etc.

[Botany]

35. Beth Clarkson an Engineering and Math Prof. @ Wichita State U.

Found that some machines in more populated areas (i.e. more democrats) would
drop a vote every so often. Kris Kobach Kansas' Sec. of State and the Father of
Interstate Cross Check blocked her access to the raw voting data to study the issue.

Kobach along w/Ken Blackwell worked for the Trump campaign too.

[orangecrush]

49. Thank you

Sounds like a good lead.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

57. were those just votes in Kansas?

[Botany]

59. She has found statistical anomalies in more than one race and state

http://www.emporiagazette.com/opinion/editorials/article_f9117df4-c68c-5778-b32d-48332495e423.html

[Laura PourMeADrink]

61. thanks. Still irks me that Dems were so quick to declare the counting of votes was perfect. To

me, that was a set up by Trump. All the outrage when he said it would be rigged. Much better to say "We don't know if it was or not" which is truer.

[Botany]

62. Now I don't know at what level the Russian hacking and other stuff effected the vote count but ...

... we do know that ever since EVM (electronic voting machines) have been in use
there has been a "red shift" in the vote totals that favors the republicans > the M.O.E.
(margin of error).

[Laura PourMeADrink]

63. Money and Power to make more money. I have often wondered how they

orchestrate it all - the simple logistics of doing that. I suppose that wanting more money is an ingrained given. But, how and where do they decide how to make it happen? How do they do it and have the conversations so private and unrecorded? On the golf courses and private clubs? How did they all know to work on redistricting? How would they have pulled off an EVM fix? To engineer all the tax loopholes. I am convinced that the whole HMO invention must have been hatched somewhere - perhaps on a cocktail napkin....What is something that every human being has to have? Health Insurance. How can we capitalize on that? Insert an unnecessary bureaucracy so we can make money every time someone has a sore throat. I recently went to an out-of-network doctor - and it was like heaven (except for the paying part). It was like a distant childhood memory. Call the doctor, go in the very next day, sit in a small waiting room, get called in within 3 minutes, see a doctor (not a PA) who talks to you, cares, etc. etc.

[TheFrenchRazor]

68. the fact that this data is inaccessible should be considered UNACCEPTABLE in a so-called free

and open country. the software, hardware, and vote counts are all off-limits to the public, but we're just supposed to "trust" that our election results are legit. what a bunch of BS.

[sharedvalues]

28. Voter rolls and Facebook "likes" can be combined to microtarget lies to suppress votes

[orangecrush]

50. Thanks

I had read something about the microtargeting.

[hamsterjill]

34. That's my question, too.

I'm not computer literate enough to know what is and what is not possible, but I found that statement intriguing.

[Achilleaze]

8. The KGOP must be shitting borsht in their russian-made diapers

Holy Dippin Dots, Casino Man.

[orangecrush]

10. With the Syrian airstrikes and Gorsuch

Dominating the media, this is interesting even in its obscurity.

[sharedvalues]

30. That word with "G". You mean Justice Asterisk?

[orangecrush]

51. Yes

The asterik should be on every opinion this vile man writes.

[Seedersandleechers]

12. How many more threads are we going to see on this?

[orangecrush]

13. Is there another thread about this on LBN?

I'll be happy to repost it in GD if so.

[Seedersandleechers]

29. I stand corrected

I saw this: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028914043, and another one earlier this am, but it was on GD.

[orangecrush]

43. Thanks

Appreciate the feedback.

But I think your link is broke, unless perhaps it is a problem on my end.

[aeromanKC]

14. Related to DU's Election Day Hack?

A lot of Russian Troll bot shenanigans going around.

[orangecrush]

17. THAT

Is a most interesting theory!

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Wives usually don't testify against their husbands

let alone blab to the press

"Thanks, Honey!"

[orangecrush]

18. ...

[LanternWaste]

24. Seems less like her testifying against anyone and more as though she's

Seems less like her testifying against anyone and more as though she's explaining what she herself is not sure of.

Fun to allege we know what spouses usually do and don't do... as long as we realize it's merely an allegation.

[tazkcmo]

19. I'd like to

But I'm not going to get excited about this arrest Yet. This guy could be a know nothing programmer or he could have actual information/connections that prove fruitful but so far I've seen nothing in the two articles that have appeared so far to indicate either.

We'll find out soon enough. I'll keep my fingers crossed!

[orangecrush]

23. Sounds like

A balanced point of view.

[democrank]

20. Time for Trump to throw out another shiny object for the media to chase.

Over there, no over there, no over here.

[orangecrush]

21. Exactly

And I believe he is being coached by the master manipulator, Putin.

[enid602]

53. pootie

Interesting that this story comes from RT, putie's version of Fox. Could be a red herring to embarrass the left in the US. Like tRiump's tax teturn.

[Dopers_Greed]

25. Now Chump will probably fling some missiles at Spain

[orangecrush]

38. Or land

On an aircraft carrier

[ArizonaLib]

26. Good!

Now the FBI and the attorney general can finally get to the bottom of this election interference! Well...never mind.

[C Moon]

31. I hope he's under extreme protection.

[mopinko]

32. will they extradite this guy, or

will he rot in spanish prison?

should be interesting to watch.

[orangecrush]

39. Interesting also

That it seems the story is buried....

[Abu Pepe]

33. Maybe a diversion or some other disinformation

given the source. RT saying it = Putin saying it.

[orangecrush]

40. Naw

If Trump wants a diversion, he fires a missile, tweets nonsense, or appoints another scumbag.

[Initech]

36. Keep peeling back the layers, eventually we'll find the center!

[orangecrush]

42. Hopefully

Trump will be the one crying when this onion gets fried.

[Initech]

44. I'd like to see McConnell, Ryan, Gorsuch, and Prince go down with him.

[orangecrush]

47. Check out the update

At post 46.

Looks like they are trying to put a lid on this.

[bdamomma]

56. me too

Especially McConnell

[KewlKat]

37. I don't understand this statement? They told him that he created a virus?

"She said that when she spoke to her husband on the phone from the police station, he told her he was told that he had created a computer virus that was "linked to Trump's election win."

So the virus he created was used in the election debacle? Like he wasn't working with the hackers but the hackers used his virus?

[orangecrush]

41. Great catch

It will be interesting if we ever find out.

It will also be interesting to see if he is left to rot in Spain, or brought here.

[Enoki33]

45. I thought RT is part of the Putin propaganda

machine. Makes for interesting speculation. Like maybe Putin is firing a warning shot across Trump's bow.

[orangecrush]

46. There are many sources running this story

And here is an update -

"According to Russian television, quoting Levashov's wife, armed police stormed into their apartment in Barcelona and quizzed her husband for two hours. Later in a phone conversation from a Spanish jail, Maria Levashov said her husband told her the arrest was "linked to Trump's election win."

However, a U.S. official familiar with the arrest said authorities have not yet determined if Levashov was part of the political hacking operation.

Related: U.S. Has Identified Russians Who Gave Hacked Emails to WikiLeaks

"It is to-be-determined whether he had anything to do with the WikiLeaks hack or the Russian role in the election. He was being looked at on other cyber issues, so he will be asked about the elections," said the official."


https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amp/russian-hacker-busted-spain-latest-global-u-s-roundup-n744911


An unnamed official is QUOTED as diluting what the suspects wife said, just what the hell is going on here?

[Enoki33]

52. Thanks.

[orangecrush]

54. Thank you

For your comments!

[riversedge]

55. This Russian Hacker's Wife Says He Was Arrested For Being "Linked To Trump's Win"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/this-is-the-russian-hacker-detained-in-spain-for-helping?utm_term=.jcLzaPzG4e#.tb64Qm4N0K

Link to tweet

This Russian Hacker's Wife Says He Was Arrested For Being "Linked To Trump's Win"

Pyotr Levashov, known online as Peter Severa, was detained in Spain over the weekend. His wife says it’s because of his involvement with a “computer virus” linked to the election.
Originally posted on April 10, 2017, at 12:09 p.m.
Updated on April 10, 2017, at 4:02 p.m.


SAN FRANCISCO — For years Pyotr Levashov, aka Peter Severa, was known to authorities as one of the world’s most prolific spam kingpins.

Levashov, who lived in St. Petersburg, traveled freely under a lifestyle so lavish that one fellow Russian hacker told BuzzFeed News it “would have embarrassed an oligarch.” Last week, he was arrested in Barcelona while vacationing with his family under an international warrant at the request of the US.

Normally, the arrest of a spammer wouldn’t illicit international headlines, no matter how prolific. But over the weekend Levashov’s wife told the Russian state-owned broadcaster Russia Today that her husband’s arrest was due to his involvement in a “computer virus” that was “linked to Trump’s win.” Immediately, online forums were abuzz that one of the Fancy Bears — a group of Russian, government-linked hackers — had been caught.

Yet the arrest of Levashov, a well-known figure in cybercriminal circles, has less to do with the US government hunting down elusive members of the Russian government’s elite squad of hackers and more to do with authorities finally cracking down on the murky underworld of Russian cybercriminals who have aided Russia’s ever-growing cyberwar in pursuit of their geopolitical goals. For years, cybersecurity researchers and US authorities have tracked the murky ties between cybercriminals and the Russian state, including how malware first developed for criminal enterprises has made its way into state-sponsored cyberattacks on Russia’s neighbors. Over the last six months, US authorities have appeared to be stepping up their efforts to arrest the cybercriminals who work with the Russian state.

“We’ve reached a boiling point with Russia. They are the closest competitor to the US when it comes to cyberespionage and cyberattacks,” said Milan Patel, managing director at the K2 Intelligence cybersecurity firm and former chief technology officer of the FBI’s cyber division. “With Russia now, a lot is coming to the forefront and being made public about how they run their cyber activities.”.......................

[Fantastic Anarchist]

69. That last paragraph is somewhat surprising.

I mean, we know it's happening, but he's essentially admitting the we (the United States) do it, too. He seems to have no moral qualms with it.

[GliderGuider]

58. It's also possible that he wrote a virus that was planted on Weiner's laptop.

That virus could have allowed the later placement of Hillary's emails, allowing them to be discovered by the NYC FBI field office following the seizure of the laptop as evidence in the sexting sting.

https://patribotics.blog/2017/02/14/the-carolina-conspiracy-putin-catfished-weiner-louise-mensch/

I drew readers’ attention to the arrest in Prague of the Russian hacker, Yvgeny Nikulin. He was indicted on charges of hacking Dropbox, Linked in and Formspring in 2012-2013.

Formspring is the little-known sexting app that Anthony Weiner used for his sexting the first time around.

My theory was that Nikulin, on instructions from the Russian state, “woke” or “planted” a laptop of Anthony Weiner’s via a virus which he placed on it through his prior hack of Formspring, and alerted Russia’s moles and agents of influence in the FBI field office in New York, who subsequently “leaked” to all and sundry that the emails had been found, and, by Rudy Giuliani’s own testimony, pressured James Comey into sending the letter he did.

However, the emails were – nonetheless- found as part of an “unrelated criminal investigation” into Weiner’s sexting with a “15 year old girl”. The story of these “sexts” broke Sep 21st in the Daily Mail with a byline from Alana Goodman.

This could be the guy who wrote the virus that Mensch speculated about. That virus would have played a major role in the election by allowing the uploading of the emails that Comey subsequently wrote his letter about.

My theory is that he was the person who wrote the virus that Nukulin later planted.

[orangecrush]

64. Thank you for this background.

Wow.

Deeper and deeper.

[riversedge]

60. a reminder to stay focused.........from

Link to tweet

[orangecrush]

65. And they are striving mightily

To break our focus.

[Heartstrings]

66. One by one

the dominoes will fall...

[orangecrush]

67. Hopefully in time

Before something truly horrible happens.