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Trump Servers Communicating With Russia? Computer Scientists Raises Question About Info Leaked, Report Says
Leoben Miel
First Posted: Nov 02, 2016 04:00 AM EDT
Last summer, a group of computer experts and DNS technicians uncovered that for a period of four months this year, one of Trump Organization server have pinged two other servers from a known Russian financial outfit Alfa Bank, Slate.com reports.
Franklin Foer, a former New Republican editor reported that it is not known about the kind of transmission that has transpired between the three servers. It could have been emails and or spam, however different experts mentioned that the information that were pinged shows pattern of human intervention.
DNS expert Paul Vixie told Slate that "The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion."
"The operative word is 'secretive,' Vixie added. "This is more akin to what criminal syndicates do if they are putting together a project."
In the Slate report, Foer established the situation by tracing some history. He cited that the first server was registered in 2009 for the Trump Organization. The said server is meant for sending out massive emails and other e-marketing campaigns for Trump-branded products.
Furthermore, cybersecurity authorities in charge in investigating the hacking of the Democratic National Committee a few months back have discovered what seems to be a malware transmitting from a Russian server towards a Trump related domain. When the malware was discovered, the server is no longer used for email and marketing campaigns. Oddly, the server is only utilized for a small amount of data and traffic.
Digging deeper, the experts attempted to ping the Trump-Email.com server but instead received error messages. Slate reported that this lead them to believe that the server is being used to receive message from a small group IP addresses, 87 percent of the DNS lookups are with the Alfa Bank servers.
After plotting the log data of the server on a timeline, the researchers found out that there was a significant spike during vital moments of the US Presidential Elections. These spikes in the log data and DNS lookups have been more active during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. To verify the information Slate asked nine experts to look at the server logs and they told that the data is almost impossible to tamper with. This is because the log includes thousands of records with nuances that are too advanced and technical to reproduce.
Foer further explained in his report that the Trump-Email.com has seized function last September 23. This incident happened after The New York Times asked Alfa Bank about the issue. Trump Organization launched a new host name on September 27 - trump1.contact-client.com. This new name is communicating from the server in question but in a different route.
Curiously, the first look up for the new host name came from the Russian Alfa Bank. This means that the only explanation of how Alfa Bank get to learn about the new host name is if the bank is in direct contact to the one who is charge with the host. On the other hand, The New York Times sources stated that there is nothing from the investigation so far have link the Trump Group and the Russian Government.
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First Posted: Nov 02, 2016 04:00 AM EDT
Last summer, a group of computer experts and DNS technicians uncovered that for a period of four months this year, one of Trump Organization server have pinged two other servers from a known Russian financial outfit Alfa Bank, Slate.com reports.
Franklin Foer, a former New Republican editor reported that it is not known about the kind of transmission that has transpired between the three servers. It could have been emails and or spam, however different experts mentioned that the information that were pinged shows pattern of human intervention.
DNS expert Paul Vixie told Slate that "The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion."
"The operative word is 'secretive,' Vixie added. "This is more akin to what criminal syndicates do if they are putting together a project."
In the Slate report, Foer established the situation by tracing some history. He cited that the first server was registered in 2009 for the Trump Organization. The said server is meant for sending out massive emails and other e-marketing campaigns for Trump-branded products.
Furthermore, cybersecurity authorities in charge in investigating the hacking of the Democratic National Committee a few months back have discovered what seems to be a malware transmitting from a Russian server towards a Trump related domain. When the malware was discovered, the server is no longer used for email and marketing campaigns. Oddly, the server is only utilized for a small amount of data and traffic.
Digging deeper, the experts attempted to ping the Trump-Email.com server but instead received error messages. Slate reported that this lead them to believe that the server is being used to receive message from a small group IP addresses, 87 percent of the DNS lookups are with the Alfa Bank servers.
After plotting the log data of the server on a timeline, the researchers found out that there was a significant spike during vital moments of the US Presidential Elections. These spikes in the log data and DNS lookups have been more active during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. To verify the information Slate asked nine experts to look at the server logs and they told that the data is almost impossible to tamper with. This is because the log includes thousands of records with nuances that are too advanced and technical to reproduce.
Foer further explained in his report that the Trump-Email.com has seized function last September 23. This incident happened after The New York Times asked Alfa Bank about the issue. Trump Organization launched a new host name on September 27 - trump1.contact-client.com. This new name is communicating from the server in question but in a different route.
Curiously, the first look up for the new host name came from the Russian Alfa Bank. This means that the only explanation of how Alfa Bank get to learn about the new host name is if the bank is in direct contact to the one who is charge with the host. On the other hand, The New York Times sources stated that there is nothing from the investigation so far have link the Trump Group and the Russian Government.
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