If you think you are going to make any headway advancing backchannel here, you are very mistaken. Q has already made the definitive statement: "Fake." Q has also warned us that there would be attempts to take over his role. Attempt denied.
That's interesting. Let me add the link to the Cisco blog post mentioned in the press release. It goes into more detail about the threat.
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html