The Financial Debunker

(We are very frustrated over an UNSUCCESSFUL (together with their administration since 5 years back) cyber penetration (combined with their ongoing spying activities) against us by the "associates of a potential client" 6 weeks ago. We will demonstrate to the relevant side that their effort is a constant waste of resources as it wasn't conducted with great care. Signatures of the attempted penetration was observed - not to mention that it is just very obnoxious than impressive in nature. Their way of conduct just forcefully put our current "relaxed" cyber security defenses to an automated "heightened (when threats are detected)" state - which we at least needs two factor verification for certain activities nowadays.

Since, they are adamant in their pursuit for the extent of our capabilities, we will have no choice now but to demonstrate how little information could be slightly damaging to the relevant's side operation. All conducted without actually lifting a finger. Like it has always been our style, a retribution of any scale must be performed elegantly.) 

 

 

TRINITY ARTICLE SERIES

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PRELUDE DISCUSSION

 

The Malay word analogue for "Intelligence" is "Perisikan". This  particular choice of word is not very synonymous to the word "Intelligence". "Perisikan" would only best to sum up the word "Espionage". The Malays had a particular culture of "merisik" - more commonly known as spying or getting to know the future bride's personality, availability and family background through interview as well. "Perisikan" would be more suited with the word "spying" perhaps "ascertaining". Some may argue that spying is "pengintipan". "Pengintipan" includes peeking, peeping as well as snooping.

 

Cutting short, the best Malay translation for "Unintelligent Intelligence" is "Perisikan Bodoh". The reason to this pedantic argument is due to the fact that "Intelligence" is a more all rounded word and should be divided into sections of Analytics, Solutions, Espionage, Cyber Securities and Technologies which then will be required to be subdivided again. Nevertheless, let us leave this pedantic topic for theoretical linguists to debate. The Indonesian which share the same linguistic root as the Malays would translate the above title as "Intelijen Tolol" which would conform to it's exact meaning.

 

 

CHAOS IN TEAM UMNO x TEAM NAJIB x TEAM TOK MAT

 

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Like Team Najib, Team UMNO is at a mess at the moment. The current dilemma is the leadership vacuum with confuse uncertainties ahead which leads to the question of the worthiness for UMNO's next true leader. With constant politically crafted attacks, the pinnacle to this slow dwindling fall for the 60 years-old political party is near despite gaining traction on the ground. 

"...Popularity is not equivalent to political control. UMNO leaders fail to look at the holistic image. "Political paralysis" is the right word uttered by the UBS senior manager Kelvin Tay  (whom Dr Ong Kian Ming had disagreements with his definition of 1) current account deficit vs fiscal deficit, 2) shrinking and 3) political paralysis. We (as we are not hypocrites or sycophants) have to debunk Dr Ong's analysis for Kelvin is correct within his context. 1) Current account deficit's definition includes financial outflow and from the chart of KLCI, it does indicate heavy stock selling by foreign investors and can be interpreted as outflow. The sudden decision for discarding Malaysian bonds worth billion of dollars by the Norwegian Sovereign Funds suppressed the Ringgit continuously to 4.20 and ended at an alarming 4.17 with intervention by the Central Bank that saves the day - Kelvin's analysis is acceptable as the facts correlates perfectly. 2) There is growth according to Moodyz but clearly the growth are shown to be shrinking - Kelvin is right within his context again and as a senior manager, he would definitely have gauged the domino effects that will probably lead to continuous shrinking. 3) Political paralysis which was to follow with his comments on GST vs SST is actually quite a similar talk among politicians, economists and thinkers in 2016 United States Broken Taxation System. Kelvin wasn't addressing about GLC and GLIC as addressed by Dr Ong (which needs to desensitize a little bit). Refer the link below

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-15/political-paralysis-is-the-biggest-threat-to-u-s-competitiveness

We urge the PH government to do thorough fact checks in their manifestos, promises and the prices increment on items after SST as failure to do so will add another label on the ruling side for having "double standards". Berating Nikkei, UBS and finding faults with Goldman Sachs do not bode well for us especially with the constant extension of political prosecution and perception that "aren't these bankers are like Jho Low? (this is an obtuse analogy to equate all bankers as crooks or equating all politicians to Mahathir, Najib, Anwar or Daim)", yet hypocritically Malaysia wants to be a financial region to compete with Singapore by re-introducing Bandar Malaysia as a financial hub.) and it is heavily infested in the Malaysian Political System both at the ruling and opposing sides...."

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The only side that remain a relevant force is the royalty. When democratically elected leaders (paid with Malaysian taxpayer money which should be above the previous administration's Key Performance Index to correlate with Senator Liew Chin Tong's campaign of "A Better Deal For All" and living up to it, hopefully) failed the Malaysians with a debt increment at a staggering rate of 90+ billion in 10 months time, this is when the word "Monarch" within the Malaysian Constitutional Monarch comes to play more weight in probably returning the country to a status quo (All cards must be open. The end justifies the means. The ruling side needs to stop fulfilling their 1 trillion debt prophecy as they are approaching that number before 2023 - additional 90 billion in 1 year will translate to an additional debt of 450 to 500 billion in 5 years plus the existing 640 billion initial debt. 1 trillion is fulfilled easily unless the ruling side keeps introducing more new politically suicide taxes.). The paragraph below is the reason why Team UMNO is a mess at the moment.

 1) Najib is facing many charges and despite relinquishing his position, it seems he campaigns more than the others. 2) Zahid as the anointed leader is facing more charges than Najib. He is playing a semi-retired role with his unending holiday while making strong ground movements among the Muslims in mosques during part time. 3) Mat Hassan (there is the possibility that he will be implicated with the transfer of 10 million ringgit to London) is not an MP, he is tested again to defend Rantau which he pass with flying colors. 4) The new opposition leader Ismail Sabri Yaakob seems like a tiger at an infancy stage. 5) Khairy has strong firepower yet he seems to have personal grudge with Najib all this while. 6) Lokman is Najib's dearest supporter turned potential leader with his devotion matching his silly public display of wrecking lawlessness temperament - causing more reputation damage with a slight attempt of igniting sparks for the prelude to a possible uprising. 7) Dr Ashraf seems doing the right thing by keeping up his theory on Mahathir doesn't want Anwar as the 8th to drive the wedge deeper in many of his interviews including with PKR members. Finally 8) Hishammudin is playing a ploy with the role of pretentiously supporting the Mahathir faction to drive the implosion in PH closer.

"...Despite of great teamwork, the leadership is void and with the right blow, all can crumble...."

The Najibs and Team Najib (we will not elaborate all, just a little will suffice) historically had a habit of making erroneous political calculations due to their misplaced arrogance. This leads them to think that they can simply afford to offend anyone during their tenure. During their administration (we sincerely hope the current PH administration will be friendlier and helpful to establishments that can put Malaysia on the pedestal in ensuring a longer political mileage.), they had offended

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1) The Mahathirs (while Mahathir had continuous strain relationship with his political No 2, his relationship with his associates seems to be magnificent.)
2) The Kuoks + many other business owners
3) The Tjandras of Mulia Group (as far as Indonesia with plans of tricking to capture Mr Joko Tjandra and surrender him to the Indonesian Authority after the Mulia Tower fallout.)
4) North Korea (Najib's administration including Najib himself thought that as Malaysia had more natural resources and better financial status, offending North Korea's Kim Jong Un is the appropriate decision. His administration wasn't satisfied with the fact that Kim Jong Nam was assassinated in KLIA under his watch. A tit tat diplomacy of holding hostages was followed with Malaysia ending up returning the Korean masterminds back home anyway. Even his key people with a degree from Oxford in Khazanah ridicule Kim as crazy. Despite continuously being ridiculed, Kim proved to be the eternal great adversary of the United States while Najib now stands as the accused in court with 40+ charges.)

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His exclusive connection to China (to what extent, we are vague. Our observation (base on anecdotal and circumstantial evidences) leads us to believe that a very rich country had been aiding Najib's intelligence team (with their outdated style) ). We sincerely hope Najib and team Najib would exercise more constraints to manage the damage control upon themselves with the last month incident involving a bunch of them being charged for a heat up brawl in University Malaya.) deluded him to the point that makes him think that he is somehow invincible. His vainglorious demeanor is so prevalent, a symptom of hierarchical Right Wing mindset that emphasizes their belief on birthright rather than merit. 

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Despite losing the election in GE14, his team and their subtle ways of offending people seems unlikely to change as they are very confident to re-take the government with their dearest liege lord walking free. While insulting and labeling others had been part of their culture (they will always blame DAP that started  all the problems in Malaysia. Yet from our bias observation, their arrogance projected towards common people even started 3 to 5 years before the collapse of BN.) with Raja Petra Kamaruddin's article looking nice when putting side by side, a strong leash had to be put on the collars of his sycophants (which is more of a liability, as this bunch seems to be cowards before GE14 and being too kind towards the opposition while just brandishing their bravery on social media.) before they wrecked more damages. The hatred towards Non-Malays is going strong and one of their doctrine is - ...

"...Biar bodoh ataupun hodoh, asalkan Melayu...", which translates to "Never mind being stupid or ugly, as long as being a Malay...."

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This is in response to the current "Non-Malay" appointments in GLC, the argument is not about merit but on racial term. Like we mention, Team UMNO and Team Najib is a mess, non-hierarchical and unorganized despite the resources they have. Due to the current inherited hierarchical mess, it is confusing which side converts to which side at the moment (many Najib supporter now are Tok Mat supporter) and it would be easier to label them as Team UMNO x Team Najib x Team Tok Mat.

 

...Excuse our language as we will change the tone of this article from down-right mature discussions to comedic in nature....

 

The crazy (crazy is the best word to apply in such context) part is the team responsible in cyber-espionage. With recent and constant UMNO's leader being hacked which they blame on their ultimate nemesis DAP again, new recruits were scouted and crazy handshaking deals (with Tok Mat Hassan actually) were made as fast as introducing a 40 days horny man abstained from sex  to hook up with a tall voluptuous sex goddess. The fast track deal was made base on one condition "For Islam, For Malays and For the Ummah". As crazy as it sounds, covert operation that was supposed to be secretive was made public in social media spaces (didn't these new recruits know that Facebook has a feature to share things within circle?), the intention to hack PH leaders was turned into public announcement with their crazy supporters jeering in happiness and the craziest of all is their motivation to train new recruits (not sure if autistic children and mentally disabled candidate could also qualify) to be an expert in hacking in 3 days time. 

...For G-d's sake, who is this genius master? What sort of genius are they recruiting? It boils down in the end, are they hiring a hacker or a bragger? And the soap opera hogwash continues from six weeks ago up to the time of this writing (if you are in BN top leadership and had no idea what are we referring to, your failure to comprehend is the spell for your future doom )...."

We had been in touch with professionals for advices on hacking and cyber-security (one had a Masters from University Science Malaysia capable of developing Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. He holds the most important technology position in a GLC, the other one with good grades first degree from Multimedia University capable of reducing costs by doing four people's job in a foreign company which is the reason why he was hired despite the heavy discrimination.) and they advise 1) phishing - which the other end is expected to be an idiot and 2) signal interception and encryption. Despite having the knowledge in 1) and 2), platforms such as G-mail (we will be using this as an example as it would be easier for the audience to follow) and Facebook have their own security measures and algorithm to keep you out due to unmatched signatures, IMEI and etc. 

Their veiled  brandishing threats which at first was perplexing appear to be just down right silly due to their failure in creating impact. Here are some of their classical modus operandi. The first example is correlated with their cyber-espionage mess. The mess that made us successfully analyze their cyber-folly pattern. The other examples are mess created by overconfidence where individuals with good hunch could simply sniff out body language abnormalities from silly amateurs.

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1) THE OBNOXIOUS INEFFECTIVE HACKING JOB

 

 

Their job deserves Donald Trump's classical line...

"...YOU DID A BAD, BAD JOB. VERY BAD JOB..."

After the publication of the story on BARISAN HYDRA, 

1) we received an "anonymous e-mail threatening us for 2000 Euros with an enclosed pdf file acting as a phishing cache". Who is so thick to respond to such threats?

A few weeks later, our response to a particular criticism directed towards a dozen of Najib's inner circle was taken as a challenging remark. A second wave of attack was initiated, this time slightly more coordinated. 

2) The hacking job was done with a combination of "facts and information collected on a particular individual/group (us)". With their infinite resources, it is just a piece of cake. They observe what we do, where we go, what we like, our income and expenditures, our modus operandi including overall pattern and etc. They will then hire all sorts of personnel to engage discussions in order to lure us out and reveal more of ourselves. Being always few steps ahead, they are an open book and...

"...to our shocking knowledge, they made a contact with an entity also hacker called "The Collector". This is not The Collector from the Marvel Cinematic Universe...."

"The Collector's (which can be an entity of 1 person, 1 group or a system. Their unity and archiving is what makes them strong.)" job is pretty simple.

 

Step 1) "The Collector" will go through the internet, site by site all the time searching for individuals who publishes both their a) email addresses and/or b) their mobile number.  

Step 2) Once they got these two pieces of information, c) they would send phishing cache to that particular e-mail address. If the person opens the phishing cache, "The Collector" will get to control the "secondary victim's" email. 
Step 3) If they fail, they will pretentiously call the victim for personal information through impersonation as they know certain personal information through traditional spying such as the banks they go and school they attend. Knowing some facts, they will make the effort to answer security questions through the "Lost Password" section. Off course, that is before platforms such as G-mail and Facebook had their security in a very lax state. Now they have improved counter mechanisms with matching IMEI, IP and other pattern signatures including request for the creation of complicated passwords.
Step 4) To penetrate Step 3),  hackers need to impersonate the IMEI and IP sections which could be obtained if "you pretentiously make friends request with someone and start communicating through Facebook or Whatsapp". The IP could be dynamic sometimes and this poses more challenges.

"...Certain intelligence community (base on anecdotal and circumstantial evidences) have access to moles in Telco companies and they would be at a better advantage in this game. Depending on the advances of current technology, we are unsure if the IMEI and IP could be cloned for a certain period of time and whether current Telco had technologies to detect signals going to two different devices but same IMEI...."
 
Step 5) All the steps from Step 1 to Step 4) are necessary when dealing with someone who would not simply open an e-mail and respond. The main target is the designated "primary victim" which we would assume of not simply opening anything suspicious. The "secondary victim" main function is to act as a trusted entity to disguise and communicate with the "primary victim" using the element of trust.  Let's assume that the "primary victim" is the press secretary to the Prime Minister Kadir Jasin (with reference to the Malaysian Political Landscape and current audience), to penetrate Kadir Jassin, a detail observation on his surrounding networks and associates are identified and monitored. He will have a long list  but all that is required is just one "secondary victim" to send a phishing cache to the the "primary victim" and once he trusted the source and opens the file - Voilla!!! you are in. The "secondary victim" is usually chosen as someone not too close and not in contact for about a year or two as there is WhatsApp nowadays which people can communicate directly. It is also preferred to be his not so close clients rather than direct associates.

Step 6) This is not over yet. Many hacked G-mail accounts had been retrieved back by G-mail. That is where the "The Collector" comes in - assume that the "secondary victim" is hacked on 1am January 1 2019, all the information from contact list and all email correspondences will be collected by the "The Collector" even before G-mail realized of their mistake and retrieve the account back at 1.10 am January 1 2019.  For simplicity, lets assume that the "secondary victim" is "Rais Hussin" (a strategist to Kadir Jasin). The sent email will match the G-mail signature as "Rais Hussin" being the name of the sender can be changed accordingly when the email was sent. The difference is - instead of G-mail sending the email, it is now XYMail (mostly from Russia) that send the email as the hacker and "The Collector" had lost control over the original account. The email sent out will be based on content discussed years ago.

Step 7) These are the many steps that is required to be successfully accomplished before hacking into websites. Oppps. To hack and hijack websites will be much more complicated and is illegal in nature. It involves cloning "random number generator" and certain "programs".