UPDATES
April 5, 2023
March 25, 2023The "activity timezones" section of this page has been updated to include a newly discovered GMT +3 time zone indicator. March 20, 2023The timeline has been updated to include some DM communications that were missing (they were in the corpus but missing from the timeline). Earliest known communications from Guccifer 2.0 to others have also been tagged. December 24, 2022Hosting has been extended for another two years. Content relating to the fraudulent nonsense of Duncan Campbell and Computer Weekly has been stripped out from updates and moved here as it only served to distract readers from legitimate research into Guccifer 2.0. I will probably expand on the final summary report at some point in the new year (and may have a new article or two in the pipeline for 2023). For any who may have missed the final summary report, click the link below.
February 25, 2022Corpus Updated A document released from the FEC provides details of communications from Guccifer 2.0 to Russell Taub on August 15, 2016.
The corpus has been updated. November 12, 2021Corpus Update Complete DM conversations Guccifer 2.0 had with Lee Stranahan and Aaron Nevins were missing from the corpus. These have now been added and I've also added links to sources for all entries in the corpus. The updated corpus is available here. November 10, 2021Additional Guccifer 2.0 Communications Documented Additional communications from Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed & Daily Caller are now documented and linked to here. Corpus update is in progress, more on that to come soon... October 28, 2021More Guccifer 2.0 Communications Documented & Corpus Updated Several Twitter DMs and other communications from Guccifer 2.0 were pointed out to me recently that I had not documented and that were missing from the corpus. Additional communications are now documented and linked to here and here. The updated corpus is available here. December 25, 2020Hosting for g-2.space has been extended for another two years. It's now been a year since I published my "Evidence Versus GRU Attribution" article:
Since then, the only rebuttal I've seen has consisted of people arguing that timestamps can be faked (without explaining why Russians pretending to be Romanian would plant evidence to suggest the operation's origins were in the US or why such evidence would generally be harder to find than the Russian breadcrumbs were). They seem to overlook that Guccifer 2.0's email, blogging and social media activities (and more) all provided clues pointing at the operation being based in the US. Additionally, the article was updated earlier this year to cover the fact that a hole was discovered in a third party's "timestamp tampering" theory because their handling/processing of evidence and the scenario they proposed introduced its own chronological anomaly. Updates addressing disinformation, conspiracy theories and propaganda will come in the New Year. August 18, 2020I've just realised that there was an article I wrote in 2019 that I didn't include in updates and it's probably worth bringing attention to. The only time I ever saw the US Department of Justice acknowledge any of the countervailing evidence (relating to Guccifer 2.0) that I've reported on over the past few years is when they were challenged with one piece in the Stone case. This involved a prosecutor within the department wrongly portraying an Eastern timezone indicator as relating to the timezone of alleged victims when it really relates to archival activity of Guccifer 2.0 in September 2016 (occurring at least a month after the files were acquired).
August 15, 2020The timeline and corpus are now linked to rather than shown in frames (this is partly to reduce load times but also a step towards improving usability on mobile devices). The timeline has been updated to include discoveries made since 2017 and to include things such as the Mueller report and the FBI's Stone arrest warrant published earlier this year. July 2, 2020
If there's anything significant I've missed or any mistakes that need addressing please email me and let me know. May 22, 2020My latest article has just been published at Consortium News. I argue that Guccifer 2.0 seemed to have an agenda to associate WikiLeaks with Russia and, because of this, it's fair to question Guccifer 2.0's intentions with regard to his effort to get an archive to WikiLeaks and to have them confirm receipt over insecure channels. May 11, 2020I have finally received an answer to a question I asked three years ago. We've learned that CrowdStrike never had evidence of the DNC emails being exfiltrated, that CrowdStrike's efforts at the DNC didn't seem to prevent hacking or involve monitoring of network activity and that the APT29 malware CrowdStrike discovered doesn't appear to have been the malware that the FBI were looking for in 2015. I was going to write an article but others already have covered some of the latest revelations:
There's also: Bombshell: Crowdstrike admits 'no evidence' Russia stole emails from DNC server (Pushback with Aaron Maté) Final Nail In RussiaGate Coffin: CrowdStrike Admits "No Evidence" (Jimmy Dore Show) Despite all of this, I'm not celebrating. That would be silly. The Mueller report suggests that hackers accessed the DNC's Exchange server in, on or around May 25, 2016 to June 1, 2016 and that they did so via one of their US servers. If that information didn't come from CrowdStrike then where did it come from? We shouldn't be too hasty to disregard the likelihood of evidence existing from other sources. If nothing else, I at least expect the DOJ and FBI to have some evidence to support the above assertion. I'm just grateful my question got answered eventually. April 30, 2020I recently became aware of some Twitter DMs (direct messages) featuring Guccifer 2.0 that I had missed, these have been added to the archive and corpus. The corpus has also been updated to add information from the Roger Stone arrest warrant application that was made public on April 29, 2020. April 16, 2020To help reduce the chances of anyone fabricating evidence and corrupting the record, I've recorded MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of all of the files referenced in my previous article about Guccifer 2.0.
February 24, 2020There have been some good articles published recently over at AMGreatness by author Michael Thau relating to RussiaGate and Guccifer 2.0. His latest does an excellent job of shining a light on the absurdity of Guccifer 2.0, what the persona's efforts achieved with regards to creating a pseudo-Russian connection to WikiLeaks and questions CrowdStrike's activities at the DNC in 2016.
December 24, 2019A few days ago I published an article that demonstrates skepticism of the attribution of Guccifer 2.0 to the GRU is justified by verifiable evidence and that no conspiracy theories are needed.
Some of Guccifer 2.0's Russian breadcrumbs were created through deliberate processes and some of the evidence providing Russian signals seems contrived. When digging beyond the Russian breadcrumbs scattered on the surface, there are conflicts that point to other locales (eg. US). Regarding timezone indicia, we have found more unique types of timezone indication that point to US timezones than Russian. November 13, 2019A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about the DNC's emails, highlighting the fact that the Special Counsel seem to have missed out the activity that occurred on May 23, 2016.
June 1, 2019Forensicator published a new article on April 22 (just after my last update here) that looked at Guccifer 2.0's files showing that some seem to have been acquired even before the GRU-attributed activities reportedly occurred:
On April 29, Forensicator published another article revealing more evidence that suggests Guccifer 2.0 was deliberately planting both Russian and Romanian indicators in documents he had released:
My article about the Special Counsel report was published on May 6. It covers various troubling omissions, conflicts & problems with volume 1, part 3 of the report (the part primarily relating to Russian hacking allegations and the Guccifer 2.0 persona):
On May 27, Forensicator published another article, this time revisiting the "HRC_pass.zip" with a surprising finding: it's likely that a USB device was used around the same time as US timezone settings were recorded being in effect just prior to the archive being constructed (this time, in the central timezone and within a week of Guccifer 2.0 appearing):
April 22, 2019I've added some items to the timeline regarding Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks. Although not directly related to Guccifer 2.0, Forensicator recently published a highly detailed analysis of the leaked DNC emails that WikiLeaks released in 2016 that is worth checking out:
I'm currently working on article about the Mueller report but this will probably not be ready for a couple of weeks due to my current workload elsewhere. Following this, I'll have a very brief recap on "ComputerWeekly's Fake News Fiasco" (detailing what has happened since the hit-piece was published, outlining the new evidence and explaining what my plans are to get this situation resolved). |
