https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/solarwinds-attack

After FireEye published its blog on the SolarWinds hack in December 2020, Volexity was able to tie these attacks to multiple incidents it worked in late 2019 and 2020 at a US-based think tank. Volexity tracks this threat actor under the name Dark Halo.

At this US-based think tank, which remains anonymous, Volexity worked three separate incidents involving Dark Halo. In the initial incident, Volexity found multiple tools, backdoors, and malware implants that had allowed the attacker to remain undetected for several years.

The primary goal of the threat actor was to obtain the e-mails of specific individuals at the think tank. This included a handful of select executives, policy experts, and the IT staff at the organization.

The attacker used PowerShell to create new tasks on remote machines:

$scheduler = New-Object -ComObject ("Schedule.Service");$scheduler.Connect($env:COMPUTERNAME);$folder = $scheduler.GetFolder("\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform");$task = $folder.GetTask("EventCacheManager");$definition = $task.Definition;$definition.Settings.ExecutionTimeLimit = "PT0S";$folder.RegisterTaskDefinition($task.Name,$definition,6,"System",$null,5);echo "Done"

How can this happen ? Joe said green wind jobs for AMERICANS

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/06/22/south_dakota_rocked_again_as_a_wind_turbine_plant_shuts_its_doors_145968.html

John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice of jobs either in the solar industry or as wind turbine technicians.

That was then. Now, a wind blade manufacturing plant located in Aberdeen, South Dakota, has announced it is shutting its doors permanently in less than two months.

The disappearance of Molded Fiber Glass will displace over 300 workers and their families. It marks another major loss of energy jobs in the state following President Joe Biden's halting of the Keystone pipeline on the first day of his administration.

MFG said in a news release that the closure will happen because of changing market conditions, foreign competition and proposed revisions to tax policies affecting the wind energy industry in the United States.

Since 2007, the Aberdeen plant has been producing wind turbine blades. The plant will remain in operation for the next two months until it has fulfilled existing orders.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/29/fact-sheet-biden-administration-jumpstarts-offshore-wind-energy-projects-to-create-jobs/

Today, the White House convened leaders from across the Administration to announce a set of bold actions that will catalyze offshore wind energy, strengthen the domestic supply chain, and create good-paying, union jobs.

National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met today with state officials, industry executives, and labor leaders to announce new leasing, funding, and goals that employ President Biden’s whole-of-government approach, position America to lead a clean energy revolution, and create thousands of jobs across the country with the choice to join a union.

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https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-offers-back-katko-primary-challenger-after-trumps

Former President Trump is offered to back a primary challenger of New York Rep. John Katko, a fellow Republican who voted in January to impeach Trump.

Trump made the offer in a letter to the the Onondaga County Conservative Party. Katko was among 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. He represents New York’s 24th Congressional district, based in Syracuse, in Onondaga County.

The letter was written on top of a news article by Syracuse.com titled "Onondaga County Conservative Party dumps John Katko over Trump impeachment vote,"

"A great move," Trump wrote over the article. "Katko will never win again. He is bad news. Please thank all, including those in Wayne and Cayuga – and now Onondaga."

"I won big in area. Will help with campaign – find a great candidate," Trump also wrote.

Bernie Ment, the Onondaga party chairman, said after receiving the letter that the party is waiting until redistricting is done in New York before naming a candidate to run against Katko, who in office since 2015.

Democrats can't do a damned thing right

https://politicalwire.com/2021/06/22/it-could-take-weeks-to-know-winner-of-nyc-democratic-primary/

It Could Take Weeks to Know Winner of NYC Primary

“There are 13 candidates on the ballot, and polls show no one coming remotely close to a majority. That means it’s virtually certain that we won’t have an outright winner tonight, and it will be necessary to move to the ranked-choice, ‘instant runoff’ tabulation to determine the Democratic nominee.”

“But ‘instant’ it is not — far from it. The problem is you need to know which candidates finished the race in which places before their supporters can be reallocated in the correct order. And that’s only possible after all the votes are tabulated.”

“The city board of elections is reportedly not going to run those calculations for the first time until next Tuesday. And that will only include votes cast in person — whether today or during the early-voting period, which ended Sunday. Then there are absentee ballots, which won’t start to be added to the tallies until after the Fourth of July. That means it could be until the middle of next month before a winner can be identified.”