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This week Conspiracy Journal takes a look at such clavicle-breaking stories as:
- Strange Aircraft Sighted in the Skies over California -
- Cybersleuths Uncover 5-Year Spy Operation -
- An Occult View of UFOs and the Paranormal -
- The Case of the Phantom Giant Bird -
AND: Mysterious Outbreak of Fires in Turkey
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THE SHOCKING REALITY ABOUT TIME TRAVEL!
Time Slips, Real Time Machines, And How-To Experiments To Go Forwards Or Backwards Through Time
EINSTEIN ONLY HAD PART OF THE
EQUATION DOWN PAT! ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE TRAVELED
BACKED AND FORTH THROUGH THE CORRIDOR OF TIME AND
SPACE – AND THIS COULD BE YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO
AS WELL.
Up until recently it was thought
that Einstein had revealed all there ever was to
know about time and space and how we could never
travel forward or backward in time without reaching
the speed of light. Today those that have adopted
the “string theory” of Physics have come to believe
that everything in the universe exists at one time
simultaneously.
Retired Intelligence Operative Commander X and Emmy Award winning Tim R. Swartz have declared in this valuable book – written in easy to read terms – that we are not prisoners of Time and Space, but rather are prisoners of our physical bodies and the learned behaviors of existing in the material world.
The Universe and its many mysteries await those who are not afraid to throw off the shackles of unawareness and begin the quest of exploration and learning.
In TIME TRAVEL – FACT NOT FICTION!, a vastness of relevant topics are reviewed and discussed logically, including: Spontaneous Cases of Time Travel -- People Caught In The Eddies Of Time -- An Encounter With Spirits -- Or A Brief Visit To The Past? -- The Mystery of Time Slips -- Doorways in Time -- People, Buildings and Towns From Beyond Time -- The Restaurant At The Edge Of Time -- Flight Into The Future -- Is Death a Jump in Time? -- Are UFOs Time Machines? -- The Philadelphia Experiment and the Montauk Project – Working Time Machines -- Nikola Tesla's Time Travel Experiments -- Human Time Machines -- Techniques for mental time travel -- UFOs and Time Distortion.
Here also are actual cases of people who have traveled through time and space and returned to the "present" to relate their experience. We are on the cusp of a great new discovery of benefit to all of humankind if "powerful forces" do not prevent this vital information from being distributed to everyone.
Retired Intelligence Operative Commander X and Emmy Award winning Tim R. Swartz have declared in this valuable book – written in easy to read terms – that we are not prisoners of Time and Space, but rather are prisoners of our physical bodies and the learned behaviors of existing in the material world.
The Universe and its many mysteries await those who are not afraid to throw off the shackles of unawareness and begin the quest of exploration and learning.
In TIME TRAVEL – FACT NOT FICTION!, a vastness of relevant topics are reviewed and discussed logically, including: Spontaneous Cases of Time Travel -- People Caught In The Eddies Of Time -- An Encounter With Spirits -- Or A Brief Visit To The Past? -- The Mystery of Time Slips -- Doorways in Time -- People, Buildings and Towns From Beyond Time -- The Restaurant At The Edge Of Time -- Flight Into The Future -- Is Death a Jump in Time? -- Are UFOs Time Machines? -- The Philadelphia Experiment and the Montauk Project – Working Time Machines -- Nikola Tesla's Time Travel Experiments -- Human Time Machines -- Techniques for mental time travel -- UFOs and Time Distortion.
Here also are actual cases of people who have traveled through time and space and returned to the "present" to relate their experience. We are on the cusp of a great new discovery of benefit to all of humankind if "powerful forces" do not prevent this vital information from being distributed to everyone.
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Our good friend Maria D'Andrea, author of such books as: "Secret Magical Elixirs Of Life," "How To Eliminate Stress And Anxiety Through The Occult," and "Occult Grimoire And Magical Formulary," will be a guest on Coast to Coast this Friday Jan. 18. Be sure to tune in for what will no doubt be a fascinating show.
Maria's website: mariadandrea.com
Biography:
Maria D'Andrea is an internationally known professional psychic from Budapest, Hungary. Since early childhood she has demonstrated high spiritual awareness and psychic ability. Over her lifetime and as a spiritual leader, she has provided psychic guidance and enlightenment to many people, assisting them on their own personal path of spiritual self discovery. Maria is known for a unique form of divination called Rune Casting. This method was used by Vikings and Europeans to unlock information about the past, present and future by tapping into the Universal Mind.
- SOMEONE IS UP THERE - US! DEPARTMENT -
Strange Aircraft Sighted in the Skies over California - Possible Links to the Breakaway Civilization Strengthen
By Olav Phillips
with your hosts, Wm. Michael Mott, Rick Osmon and Tim R. Swartz
on the PSN Radio Network.
www.soupmedianetwork.com/unravelingthesecrets/
Maria D' Andrea on
Coast to Coast Jan. 18
Our good friend Maria D'Andrea, author of such books as: "Secret Magical Elixirs Of Life," "How To Eliminate Stress And Anxiety Through The Occult," and "Occult Grimoire And Magical Formulary," will be a guest on Coast to Coast this Friday Jan. 18. Be sure to tune in for what will no doubt be a fascinating show.
Maria's website: mariadandrea.com
Biography:
Maria D'Andrea is an internationally known professional psychic from Budapest, Hungary. Since early childhood she has demonstrated high spiritual awareness and psychic ability. Over her lifetime and as a spiritual leader, she has provided psychic guidance and enlightenment to many people, assisting them on their own personal path of spiritual self discovery. Maria is known for a unique form of divination called Rune Casting. This method was used by Vikings and Europeans to unlock information about the past, present and future by tapping into the Universal Mind.
- SOMEONE IS UP THERE - US! DEPARTMENT -
Strange Aircraft Sighted in the Skies over California - Possible Links to the Breakaway Civilization Strengthen
By Olav Phillips
The initial report came to us
recent in via Filer's Files, an email newsletter
sent out by George Filer in his latest report. The
report, provided by UFOs Northwest on 12/11/12
shows what is a truly bizarre aircraft design
darting across the skies of Thousand Oakes in
Southern California.
The witness, a pilot, claims the aircraft was cruising at around 200mph at around 5000 ft on a South/South East Heading.
The second sighing of a similar craft was seen almost a month later outside San Francisco, CA flying extremely slowly and a steep angle again towards the South/South East. But what interesting about these sightings is not only the strange shape, or the course which could be taking it on an approach pattern to the test facilities in Palm Dale or even Edwards, but instead the steep angle the second sighting was seen at as well as the slow moving speed.
The Investigation Begins
It prompted me to do some searching to see if I can find a comparable aircraft design, and that search initially lead me to the idea that this object was a prototype aircraft, maybe sub-orbital given the angle of decent reported by the second witness.
The problem that vexed me was the propulsion system. Why would such an immense object (it was reported as being very large) be flying so slow it should be descending at a fairly rapid speed given its altitude. That is if it is using conventional propulsion…Then I started to think about this, and nothing seemed to add up.
The Black Knight was a large object sitting stationary at the L2 point in space. It was characterized but a funny habit of transmitting whatever was transmitted towards it at decreasing delay caused a Long Delay Echo. The object at that time, and to my knowledge to this date, has never been photographed per say and has been known to move slightly. But what is a Bracewell Probe? From the Wikipedia:
"A Bracewell probe is a hypothetical concept for an autonomous interstellar space probe dispatched for the express purpose of communication with one or more alien civilizations. It was proposed by Ronald N. Bracewell in a 1960 paper, as an alternative to interstellar radio communication between widely separated civilizations. (Bracewell, 1960)" ~ Wikipedia
Lunan hypothesizes it was a Bracewell Probe from Epsilon Bootis and the Long Delay Echo's were in fact a method to determine it was artificial, which leans weight to John Moore's claims that our early space missions to not actually destined for the moon but instead destined to dock with the Black Knight to, in a Rendezvous with Rama style program, board the vessel and extract its ancient knowledge.
The Black Knight is heavily documented, and probably real but I think only a piece of the puzzle here. The real focus has to be on the odd aircraft, so the search continued.
So I stumbled across a supposed photo of the Black Knight:
The Jigsaw Puzzle Takes Shape
And now the pieces started to fall into place. The shape although not exact was close'ish and could represent evolution of the design or even a different angle.
So why is this not the Black Knight?
That answer is simple, and the location this photo was taken, low earth orbit, it could not be the Black Knight because the Black Knight is found at L2 almost exclusively, and that makes since sense the L2 point is one of the most stable orbital points around the earth and also an excellent vantage point of the earth.
So if this thing is not Black Knight then what is it? Now that is where things get interesting… Barring the idea of the object in any of these images as being a Bracewell Probe, it would have to be a space craft. But given the space based weapons we have (brilliant pebbles, lasers etc..) and the amazing tracking we have its hard to believe that we, the Earth, would allow any alien object to just sit there and be photographed.
It has to be a spaceship because it is hovering in space but I would argue it is not alien in nature or we would not have such lovely photos and given the speed of what our witnesses observed it would have been swarmed by F-18's out of NAS Lemoore, F-15's out of Edwards AFB or more F-18's from Twentynine Palms.
And that's just what we know about.
So what would these objects be doing flying around the earth, or California for that matter? I mean someone should know right? And that is where the wrinkle comes in. For several years now there has been much brouhaha in the conspiracy community about a breakaway civilization.
It's something I tossed my hat into the ring on as well when I wrote several articles about the end game of the breakaway civilization and will be the subject of Episode 2 of The Sixth Extinction series by Rob Daven.
But we're never had really good observations of the vessels. Its long been hypothesized that the ships of the breakaway civilization would be saucers of the Haunebu class of original Nazi design done under Hans Kammler, but that's only one type of class. Even in our public arsenal we have different types of aircraft and a secret space program would also be similar in its, very human, approach.
So I think what we may be seeing here might be related to Solar Warden, a shadowy organization apparently conceived of in the 1980's and its name and much of its detail comes from much hunted hacker Gary McKinnon who, having broken into a government computer, came across references to Solar Warden. A vast space fleet, off the books, which flys around the Solar System doing stuff.
McKinnon's story is truly fascinating and worthy of its own article. He found references for fleet to fleet transfers, off-world officers and many tantalizing tidbits about some awfully interesting stuff going on upstairs in space but also down here as well. But you know even in the non-classified world we have attempted such program such as the MOL, which was the public US attempt at a manned weapons platform or the Almaz which was actually publically flown and crewed by the Soviet Union!
Now in doing a little refresher on Solar Warden I came across a article on the Huffington Post blog about Solar Warden and in it Darren Perks writes the following: "Whilst conducting an FOI (freedom of information) request with the DoD (department of defense) in 2010, I had a very unexpected response by email from them which read:
"About an hour ago I spoke to a NASA rep who confirmed this was their program and that it was terminated by the President. He also informed me that it was not a joint program with the DoD. The NASA rep informed me that you should be directed to the Johnson Space Center FOIA Manager. I have ran your request through one of our space-related directorates and I'm waiting on one other division with the Command to respond back to me. I will contact you once I have a response from the other division. Did NASA refer you to us?"
Very interesting indeed and like most programs "cancelled" by the President, such as Star Wars, Brilliant Pebbles, The Hammer of Thor (yes that's really its name) and so many other DARPA programs they lived on as Special Access Programs.
And for the last 30 years we have pumped billions of dollars into these programs and I have it on good authority from a former Soviet army officer who worked in the Soviet space program that these Star Wars weapons are real, in orbit and held onto closely by both sides.
In fact long ago in a different time he had worked on such projects. But what's truly interesting here is that not a debate about the validity of the star wars program but instead we may actually have photos of a Solar Warden vessel and its coming back to Earth on two separate occasions.
And these photos have been misidentified for many years.
Conclusion
Now I know some people might think these are drones or sensor platforms designed to spy on us and the slow moving speed would certainly lend some credence to that if it were not for the severe angle the object was traveling at and the truly unconventional airframe, not to mention how big it was.
I think the other factor to think about was the direction, in both cases I believe the vessel was heading towards Edwards to land. In the case of the Thousand Oakes sighting I suspect the vessel was on approach and being given a landing head.
In the case of the San Francisco sighting the only thing which lies South/South East is Edwards AFB and that would make sense since Solar Warden is a military program. No, I think those factors coupled with the clear design of the object seen in orbit indicate that we just might have seen a Solar Warden vessel.
Or at least one of the vessels utilized by this multinational space fleet, if it exists. But one thing is for certain, these object are real, human and pretty odd.
Now the question is if Solar Warden is real what are they protecting us from? Why do we need an interstellar space fleet? I know this sounds like an episode of U.F.O. but this might just be real.
These recent events coupled with the work of Ed Grimsley and the recent resurgence of the conversation about the Aphophis asteroid make you wonder. If the breakaway civilization is real, Solar Warden would be the logical military outgrowth from it.
Every new civilization needs a defensive arm, and given the level of technology we are dealing with as well as multinational nature of the proposed Solar Warden program this would make sense. Think of it this way. Something bad is coming and selected people are leaving, Alternative Three has been activated.
Meanwhile Alternative One is underway as a fails afe building bunkers and preparing. Stockpiling food, ammunition and body bags. If something bad does come, or even if it doesn't the members of the Alternative Three program need some way to come home, and they need to do it securely - enter Solar Warden.
Also consider this, if there is a breakaway civilization, and as John Moore has concluded they are able to get to other place in the extra-solar realm you would need a military like element to ensure your projects safety, again enter Solar Warden.
There are strange things in the sky, some of them are possibly alien and some are possibly human.
There are interesting things going on up there, and my best advice to you comes from the late Jack Horkheimer (The Star Hussler) "Keep Looking Up!"
The witness, a pilot, claims the aircraft was cruising at around 200mph at around 5000 ft on a South/South East Heading.
The second sighing of a similar craft was seen almost a month later outside San Francisco, CA flying extremely slowly and a steep angle again towards the South/South East. But what interesting about these sightings is not only the strange shape, or the course which could be taking it on an approach pattern to the test facilities in Palm Dale or even Edwards, but instead the steep angle the second sighting was seen at as well as the slow moving speed.
The Investigation Begins
It prompted me to do some searching to see if I can find a comparable aircraft design, and that search initially lead me to the idea that this object was a prototype aircraft, maybe sub-orbital given the angle of decent reported by the second witness.
The problem that vexed me was the propulsion system. Why would such an immense object (it was reported as being very large) be flying so slow it should be descending at a fairly rapid speed given its altitude. That is if it is using conventional propulsion…Then I started to think about this, and nothing seemed to add up.
The Black Knight was a large object sitting stationary at the L2 point in space. It was characterized but a funny habit of transmitting whatever was transmitted towards it at decreasing delay caused a Long Delay Echo. The object at that time, and to my knowledge to this date, has never been photographed per say and has been known to move slightly. But what is a Bracewell Probe? From the Wikipedia:
"A Bracewell probe is a hypothetical concept for an autonomous interstellar space probe dispatched for the express purpose of communication with one or more alien civilizations. It was proposed by Ronald N. Bracewell in a 1960 paper, as an alternative to interstellar radio communication between widely separated civilizations. (Bracewell, 1960)" ~ Wikipedia
Lunan hypothesizes it was a Bracewell Probe from Epsilon Bootis and the Long Delay Echo's were in fact a method to determine it was artificial, which leans weight to John Moore's claims that our early space missions to not actually destined for the moon but instead destined to dock with the Black Knight to, in a Rendezvous with Rama style program, board the vessel and extract its ancient knowledge.
The Black Knight is heavily documented, and probably real but I think only a piece of the puzzle here. The real focus has to be on the odd aircraft, so the search continued.
So I stumbled across a supposed photo of the Black Knight:
The Jigsaw Puzzle Takes Shape
And now the pieces started to fall into place. The shape although not exact was close'ish and could represent evolution of the design or even a different angle.
So why is this not the Black Knight?
That answer is simple, and the location this photo was taken, low earth orbit, it could not be the Black Knight because the Black Knight is found at L2 almost exclusively, and that makes since sense the L2 point is one of the most stable orbital points around the earth and also an excellent vantage point of the earth.
So if this thing is not Black Knight then what is it? Now that is where things get interesting… Barring the idea of the object in any of these images as being a Bracewell Probe, it would have to be a space craft. But given the space based weapons we have (brilliant pebbles, lasers etc..) and the amazing tracking we have its hard to believe that we, the Earth, would allow any alien object to just sit there and be photographed.
It has to be a spaceship because it is hovering in space but I would argue it is not alien in nature or we would not have such lovely photos and given the speed of what our witnesses observed it would have been swarmed by F-18's out of NAS Lemoore, F-15's out of Edwards AFB or more F-18's from Twentynine Palms.
And that's just what we know about.
So what would these objects be doing flying around the earth, or California for that matter? I mean someone should know right? And that is where the wrinkle comes in. For several years now there has been much brouhaha in the conspiracy community about a breakaway civilization.
It's something I tossed my hat into the ring on as well when I wrote several articles about the end game of the breakaway civilization and will be the subject of Episode 2 of The Sixth Extinction series by Rob Daven.
But we're never had really good observations of the vessels. Its long been hypothesized that the ships of the breakaway civilization would be saucers of the Haunebu class of original Nazi design done under Hans Kammler, but that's only one type of class. Even in our public arsenal we have different types of aircraft and a secret space program would also be similar in its, very human, approach.
So I think what we may be seeing here might be related to Solar Warden, a shadowy organization apparently conceived of in the 1980's and its name and much of its detail comes from much hunted hacker Gary McKinnon who, having broken into a government computer, came across references to Solar Warden. A vast space fleet, off the books, which flys around the Solar System doing stuff.
McKinnon's story is truly fascinating and worthy of its own article. He found references for fleet to fleet transfers, off-world officers and many tantalizing tidbits about some awfully interesting stuff going on upstairs in space but also down here as well. But you know even in the non-classified world we have attempted such program such as the MOL, which was the public US attempt at a manned weapons platform or the Almaz which was actually publically flown and crewed by the Soviet Union!
Now in doing a little refresher on Solar Warden I came across a article on the Huffington Post blog about Solar Warden and in it Darren Perks writes the following: "Whilst conducting an FOI (freedom of information) request with the DoD (department of defense) in 2010, I had a very unexpected response by email from them which read:
"About an hour ago I spoke to a NASA rep who confirmed this was their program and that it was terminated by the President. He also informed me that it was not a joint program with the DoD. The NASA rep informed me that you should be directed to the Johnson Space Center FOIA Manager. I have ran your request through one of our space-related directorates and I'm waiting on one other division with the Command to respond back to me. I will contact you once I have a response from the other division. Did NASA refer you to us?"
Very interesting indeed and like most programs "cancelled" by the President, such as Star Wars, Brilliant Pebbles, The Hammer of Thor (yes that's really its name) and so many other DARPA programs they lived on as Special Access Programs.
And for the last 30 years we have pumped billions of dollars into these programs and I have it on good authority from a former Soviet army officer who worked in the Soviet space program that these Star Wars weapons are real, in orbit and held onto closely by both sides.
In fact long ago in a different time he had worked on such projects. But what's truly interesting here is that not a debate about the validity of the star wars program but instead we may actually have photos of a Solar Warden vessel and its coming back to Earth on two separate occasions.
And these photos have been misidentified for many years.
Conclusion
Now I know some people might think these are drones or sensor platforms designed to spy on us and the slow moving speed would certainly lend some credence to that if it were not for the severe angle the object was traveling at and the truly unconventional airframe, not to mention how big it was.
I think the other factor to think about was the direction, in both cases I believe the vessel was heading towards Edwards to land. In the case of the Thousand Oakes sighting I suspect the vessel was on approach and being given a landing head.
In the case of the San Francisco sighting the only thing which lies South/South East is Edwards AFB and that would make sense since Solar Warden is a military program. No, I think those factors coupled with the clear design of the object seen in orbit indicate that we just might have seen a Solar Warden vessel.
Or at least one of the vessels utilized by this multinational space fleet, if it exists. But one thing is for certain, these object are real, human and pretty odd.
Now the question is if Solar Warden is real what are they protecting us from? Why do we need an interstellar space fleet? I know this sounds like an episode of U.F.O. but this might just be real.
These recent events coupled with the work of Ed Grimsley and the recent resurgence of the conversation about the Aphophis asteroid make you wonder. If the breakaway civilization is real, Solar Warden would be the logical military outgrowth from it.
Every new civilization needs a defensive arm, and given the level of technology we are dealing with as well as multinational nature of the proposed Solar Warden program this would make sense. Think of it this way. Something bad is coming and selected people are leaving, Alternative Three has been activated.
Meanwhile Alternative One is underway as a fails afe building bunkers and preparing. Stockpiling food, ammunition and body bags. If something bad does come, or even if it doesn't the members of the Alternative Three program need some way to come home, and they need to do it securely - enter Solar Warden.
Also consider this, if there is a breakaway civilization, and as John Moore has concluded they are able to get to other place in the extra-solar realm you would need a military like element to ensure your projects safety, again enter Solar Warden.
There are strange things in the sky, some of them are possibly alien and some are possibly human.
There are interesting things going on up there, and my best advice to you comes from the late Jack Horkheimer (The Star Hussler) "Keep Looking Up!"
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ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US DEPARTMENT -
Cybersleuths Uncover 5-Year Spy Operation
By Kim Zetter
Cybersleuths Uncover 5-Year Spy Operation
By Kim Zetter
An advanced and
well-orchestrated computer spy operation that
targeted diplomats, governments and research
institutions for at least five years has been
uncovered by security researchers in Russia.
The highly targeted campaign, which focuses primarily on victims in Eastern Europe and Central Asia based on existing data, is still live, harvesting documents and data from computers, smartphones and removable storage devices, such as USB sticks, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based antivirus firm that uncovered the campaign. Kaspersky has dubbed the operation “Red October.”
While most of the victims documented are in Eastern Europe or Central Asia, targets have been hit in 69 countries in total, including the U.S., Australia, Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, South Africa, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. Kaspersky calls the victims “high profile,” but declined to identify them other than to note that they’re government agencies and embassies, institutions involved in nuclear and energy research and companies in the oil and gas and aerospace industries.
“The main purpose of the operation appears to be the gathering of classified information and geopolitical intelligence, although it seems that the information-gathering scope is quite wide,” Kaspersky notes in a report released Monday. “During the past five years, the attackers collected information from hundreds of high-profile victims, although it’s unknown how the information was used.”
The attackers, believed to be native Russian-speakers, have set up an extensive and complex infrastructure consisting of a chain of at least 60 command-and-control servers that Kaspersky says rivals the massive infrastructure used by the nation-state hackers behind the Flame malware that Kaspersky discovered last year.
But the researchers note that the Red October attack has no connection to Flame, Gauss, DuQu or other sophisticated cyberspy operations Kaspersky has examined in recent years.
The attack also shows no signs yet of being the product of a nation-state and may instead be the work of cybercriminals or freelance spies looking to sell valuable intelligence to governments and others on the black market, according to Kaspersky Lab senior security researcher Costin Raiu.
The malware the attackers use is highly modular and customized for each victim, who are assigned a unique ID that is hardcoded into the malware modules they receive.
“The victim ID is basically a 20-hex digit number,” Raiu says. “But we haven’t been able to figure out any method to extract any other information from the victim ID…. They are compiling the modules right before putting them into the booby-trapped documents, which are also customized to the specific target with a lure that can be interesting to the victim. What we are talking about is a very targeted and very customized operation, and each victim is pretty much unique in what they receive.”
The statistics on countries and industries are based on Kaspersky customers who have been infected with the malware and on victim machines that contacted a Kaspersky sinkhole set up for some of the command-and-control servers.
Raiu wouldn’t say how his company came across the operation, other than to note that someone asked the lab last October to look into a spear-phishing campaign and a malicious file that accompanied it. The investigation led them to uncover more than 1,000 malicious modules the attackers used in their five-year campaign.
Each module is designed to perform various tasks — extract passwords, steal browser history, log keystrokes, take screenshots, identify and fingerprint Cisco routers and other equipment on the network, steal email from local Outlook storage or remote POP/IMAP servers, and siphon documents from the computer and from local network FTP servers. One module designed to steal files from USB devices attached to an infected machine uses a customized procedure to find and recover deleted files from the USB stick.
A separate mobile module detects when a victim connects an iPhone, Nokia or Windows phone to the computer and steals the contact list, SMS messages, call and browsing history, calendar information and any documents stored on the phone.
Based on search parameters uncovered in some of the modules, the attackers are looking for a wide variety of documents, including .pdf files, Excel spreadsheets, .csv files and, in particular, any documents with various .acid extensions. These refer to documents run through Acid Cryptofiler, an encryption program developed by the French military, which is on a list of crypto software approved for use by the European Union and NATO.
Source: Wired
www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/red-october-spy-campaign/
The highly targeted campaign, which focuses primarily on victims in Eastern Europe and Central Asia based on existing data, is still live, harvesting documents and data from computers, smartphones and removable storage devices, such as USB sticks, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based antivirus firm that uncovered the campaign. Kaspersky has dubbed the operation “Red October.”
While most of the victims documented are in Eastern Europe or Central Asia, targets have been hit in 69 countries in total, including the U.S., Australia, Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, South Africa, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. Kaspersky calls the victims “high profile,” but declined to identify them other than to note that they’re government agencies and embassies, institutions involved in nuclear and energy research and companies in the oil and gas and aerospace industries.
“The main purpose of the operation appears to be the gathering of classified information and geopolitical intelligence, although it seems that the information-gathering scope is quite wide,” Kaspersky notes in a report released Monday. “During the past five years, the attackers collected information from hundreds of high-profile victims, although it’s unknown how the information was used.”
The attackers, believed to be native Russian-speakers, have set up an extensive and complex infrastructure consisting of a chain of at least 60 command-and-control servers that Kaspersky says rivals the massive infrastructure used by the nation-state hackers behind the Flame malware that Kaspersky discovered last year.
But the researchers note that the Red October attack has no connection to Flame, Gauss, DuQu or other sophisticated cyberspy operations Kaspersky has examined in recent years.
The attack also shows no signs yet of being the product of a nation-state and may instead be the work of cybercriminals or freelance spies looking to sell valuable intelligence to governments and others on the black market, according to Kaspersky Lab senior security researcher Costin Raiu.
The malware the attackers use is highly modular and customized for each victim, who are assigned a unique ID that is hardcoded into the malware modules they receive.
“The victim ID is basically a 20-hex digit number,” Raiu says. “But we haven’t been able to figure out any method to extract any other information from the victim ID…. They are compiling the modules right before putting them into the booby-trapped documents, which are also customized to the specific target with a lure that can be interesting to the victim. What we are talking about is a very targeted and very customized operation, and each victim is pretty much unique in what they receive.”
The statistics on countries and industries are based on Kaspersky customers who have been infected with the malware and on victim machines that contacted a Kaspersky sinkhole set up for some of the command-and-control servers.
Raiu wouldn’t say how his company came across the operation, other than to note that someone asked the lab last October to look into a spear-phishing campaign and a malicious file that accompanied it. The investigation led them to uncover more than 1,000 malicious modules the attackers used in their five-year campaign.
Each module is designed to perform various tasks — extract passwords, steal browser history, log keystrokes, take screenshots, identify and fingerprint Cisco routers and other equipment on the network, steal email from local Outlook storage or remote POP/IMAP servers, and siphon documents from the computer and from local network FTP servers. One module designed to steal files from USB devices attached to an infected machine uses a customized procedure to find and recover deleted files from the USB stick.
A separate mobile module detects when a victim connects an iPhone, Nokia or Windows phone to the computer and steals the contact list, SMS messages, call and browsing history, calendar information and any documents stored on the phone.
Based on search parameters uncovered in some of the modules, the attackers are looking for a wide variety of documents, including .pdf files, Excel spreadsheets, .csv files and, in particular, any documents with various .acid extensions. These refer to documents run through Acid Cryptofiler, an encryption program developed by the French military, which is on a list of crypto software approved for use by the European Union and NATO.
Source: Wired
www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/red-october-spy-campaign/
- FROM THE SHADOW
WORLD DEPARTMENT -
An Occult View of UFOs and the Paranormal
By Sean Casteel
An Occult View of UFOs and the Paranormal
By Sean Casteel
* Is it possible to
communicate with extraterrestrials and
inter-dimensional beings through
spiritual and occult means?
* Can humankind possibly travel to other planets without rockets by utilizing out-of-body travel?
* Can we tell something about the demeanor of aliens and Ultra-Terrestrials by utilizing our inner consciousness and through psychic means?
As with many people who encounter the UFO phenomenon, Maria D’ Andrea’s experiences began in childhood. Maria is a native of Hungary, and in 1956, she fled along with her family from the coming tyranny of the Communist revolution raging all around her there.
“Basically,” Maria said, “I was hearing about UFOs at that point because, when we were escaping, every now and then people would look up and look for them. We were used to hearing about them.”
It was also around the young age of eleven or twelve that Maria had her first personal UFO experience.
“I was going out-of-body,” she explained. “It wasn’t a physical experience. It was through astral travel.
“I’m an occultist,” Maria added. “I work in the spiritual, psychic and metaphysical fields. I lecture and teach on them and have had several books published on them. We do go out-of-body consciously, or astral travel. When I’m teaching, I like to call it ‘How to travel without luggage.’ We have to have a sense of humor.”
Maria gave more details about her experience.
“I was in one spot and it just felt like you’re in between the planets,” she said. “Kind of hanging in midair, and you see the planets go by you. As I was seeing the planets moving, I noticed that there were little – at the time I was looking at them as little ‘vehicles.’ I didn’t know they were spaceships right away because I was young. They looked like little domes that were circling some of the planets and then it looked like they were going from one planet to another. When they got a little bit closer, it felt to me psychically that there was somebody in the ships. I realized they were ships.”
* Can humankind possibly travel to other planets without rockets by utilizing out-of-body travel?
* Can we tell something about the demeanor of aliens and Ultra-Terrestrials by utilizing our inner consciousness and through psychic means?
As with many people who encounter the UFO phenomenon, Maria D’ Andrea’s experiences began in childhood. Maria is a native of Hungary, and in 1956, she fled along with her family from the coming tyranny of the Communist revolution raging all around her there.
“Basically,” Maria said, “I was hearing about UFOs at that point because, when we were escaping, every now and then people would look up and look for them. We were used to hearing about them.”
It was also around the young age of eleven or twelve that Maria had her first personal UFO experience.
“I was going out-of-body,” she explained. “It wasn’t a physical experience. It was through astral travel.
“I’m an occultist,” Maria added. “I work in the spiritual, psychic and metaphysical fields. I lecture and teach on them and have had several books published on them. We do go out-of-body consciously, or astral travel. When I’m teaching, I like to call it ‘How to travel without luggage.’ We have to have a sense of humor.”
Maria gave more details about her experience.
“I was in one spot and it just felt like you’re in between the planets,” she said. “Kind of hanging in midair, and you see the planets go by you. As I was seeing the planets moving, I noticed that there were little – at the time I was looking at them as little ‘vehicles.’ I didn’t know they were spaceships right away because I was young. They looked like little domes that were circling some of the planets and then it looked like they were going from one planet to another. When they got a little bit closer, it felt to me psychically that there was somebody in the ships. I realized they were ships.”