DNC hacker 'Guccifer 2.0' was reportedly confirmed as a Russian agent

[Flicky]

The Russia-linked hacker "Guccifer 2.0" was long believed to be a front for Russian intelligence. On Thursday, The Daily Beast published a bombshell report confirming that the hacker was directly tied to the GRU, Russia's military intelligence outfit.
Guccifer 2.0, who has said that they targeted Democrats during the 2016 US election, has denied being any ties to Russia. But the US intelligence community concluded in January 2017, based on digital fingerprints that were left on the hacks, that the cyberattacks against the Democratic National Committee and members of Hillary Clinton's campaign were largely, if not entirely, carried out by Russian intelligence groups.
Security experts soon reached a consensus that the self-proclaimed hacker was either a poser or the product of a Russian disinformation campaign. The cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect also determined that Guccifer 2.0 had been using a Virtual Private Network service, Elite VPN, to hide the origin of their efforts.
However, The Daily Beast reported Thursday that the hacker forgot to activate the service on one occasion, betraying their IP address and true location in social media logs. US investigators have since used the information to identify Guccifer 2.0 as a specific officer at the GRU.
Guccifer 2.0's hack of the DNC and the subsequent dissemination of stolen materials wreaked havoc during the 2016 US election, and Clinton pointed to it as a major contributing factor to her loss to Donald Trump.

Source: Business Insider

[BuffaloHops]

Some are speculating this may tie into this planned announcement for tomorrow:

https://i.imgur.com/WRfvuXX.png

[rrkpp__]

Reminder: Roger Stone allegedly communicated and coordinated with Guccifer 2.0

In which case, Roger Stone was communicating with a Russian intelligence officer. Though, in his defense, whether he knew it was a Russian operative is unknown.

[MissingNoGuy55]

This might be the missing link Mueller needed to go after Stone if he had none before.

As BDA once explained, Stone is very close to Trump and Mueller probably didn't wanna touch him early-on considering Trump would've probably flipped out.

[Mr.Vermin]

I just hope this "law" doesn't come down on people who do ethical hacking. As someone who really enjoys and wants to have a career in infosec the current cybersecurity laws really fuck with people who have the same interests and make it harder for people like me to help others when it comes to finding and reporting vulnerabilities.