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Guilty: The Romanian ransomware mastermind who infected Trump inauguration CCTV cams
A Romanian woman has admitted running a ransomware operation from infected Washington DC's CCTV systems just days before President Trump was sworn into office in the US capital. Eveline Cismaru, 28, pled guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud, …
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Friday 21st September 2018 02:24 GMT 89724102172714182892114I7551670349743096734346773478647892349863592355648544996312855148587659264921
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Friday 21st September 2018 06:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: "ensured that the surveillance camera system was operational prior to the Inauguration"
Those white areas of the mall that were filled with people in the Obama inauguration and appeared to be devoid of people in the Trump inauguration weren't actually empty. The people there were wearing all white. With pointy hoods.
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Friday 21st September 2018 23:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: "ensured that the surveillance camera system was operational prior to the Inauguration"
> "Those white areas of the mall that were filled with people in the Obama inauguration and appeared to be devoid of people in the Trump inauguration weren't actually empty."
It's easy to claim Trump had a small crowd based on that infamous photo of his event, taken hours before the event started. The photo for Obama's crowd however, was taken during his speech. This widely disseminated deception was uncovered and debunked at the time, but some partisans refuse to this day to acknowledge it. They just don't want to have to stop "taunting" Trump supporters with this "fact."
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Saturday 22nd September 2018 17:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: "ensured that the surveillance camera system was operational prior to the Inauguration"
They were taken within minutes of each other. Sorry that you believed the Trump administration's lies to protect his fragile snowflake ego from the reality that FAR more people went to Obama's inauguration than Trump's.
But hey, Trump did set a record by getting more than double the donations to the inaugural committee than anyone else ever had. Nevermind that no one can figure out how that money was spent, so when democrats take back the house hearings and subpeonas to figure out who ended up with all those millions of unaccounted for dollars will inevitably occur.
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Friday 21st September 2018 03:11 GMT Allan George Dyer
Why?
"Each of their CCTV units consists of a camera attached to a Microsoft Windows-powered computer"
Imagine the scene...
Washington DC Police HQ, some years ago
Heat of IT: "We've completed the desktop upgrade, but now I have a thousand Windows PCs with webcams that need secure disposal, and no budget!"
Chief of Police: "Don't give me that. I need to deploy CCTV across the city and there's no budget for that either!"
and the rest is history...
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Friday 21st September 2018 18:20 GMT WolfFan
Re: They could have swapped the Inauguration footage for the Mickey Mouse show
The Walt Disney Corporation would have noticed. And shortly after that, their lawyers would have been deployed. Some of the more friendly and cuddly lawyers had small parts in various Disney movies, notably “Finding Nemo”. They would be the ones with all the teeth.
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Sunday 23rd September 2018 01:30 GMT StargateSg7
Re: The most sexy hacker in Romania...
Lookup on Google:
Photos of Eveline Cismaru
as a search term!
HOLY SMOKE IS SHE EVER SMOKIN' HOT HOT HOT!!!!!
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It's a pity that in a U.S. Women's Prison she will have her looks last about 10 days before she ends up bruised, battered and some lesboz "Prison B&*&*^^&". U.S Prisons ain't no picnic for MEN OR WOMEN!
She's small of stature so she is toast against the multiple prison gangs of 200 lbs (80 KG) butches and gangsta babes. Women affiliates of The 18th Street Gang, Savage Skulls, Du Roc Crips, The Sex Money Murda Gang, State Line Mob, 14k Triad, Menace of Destruction and any number of HUNDREDS of other big name US-based gangs are gonna do her in BUT GOOD! Her a(**&*( is Grass in about a week of entering the system!!!! THEN add in the guards who are gonna take a "Liking To Her" She is gonna be hurtin' baaaaaaad!
This ain't no comfy tush Euro-prison she's going to. It's a U.S. SLAMMA ... and she is gonna get SLAMMED!!!
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Friday 21st September 2018 18:29 GMT Florida1920
At least they had some fun before they got caught
From Observator, translated by Google:
But, surprisingly, they made a mistake that cost them expensive: they sent messages on these addresses from their personal mail and so they got naked, which relieved the work of the US authorities to identify the two Romanians .
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Saturday 22nd September 2018 17:00 GMT Claverhouse
Apart from the Windows Failware, it's nice that the Imperial Power merely has to raise a finger and the fawning countries beyond the far-flung empire fall over themselves to surrender their citizens for [ effectually life ] imprisonment.
The amusing bit is that Americans would genuinely gobble with rage and express a real horror thinking of it happening under Czar Nikolas I, or in the Byzantine Empire back in the day.