Intelligence community has concluded Russia was behind the cyber attack.Clinton’s top campaign officials wasted no time in seeking to deflect attention from the emails’ contents to the possibility that Russia might be trying to help Trump. The DNC was hacked during the 2016 election, and the U.S. Trump.Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said Wednesday that he could not explain why the Democratic National Committee did not turn over its hacked servers to law enforcement.Sink asked Earnest if the head of the Justice Department was disappointed that the DNC did not cooperate with the FBI’s request for the committee to turn over its compromised servers. This explanation fits the behavior, explains all the known facts, and is in keeping with the pattern of disinformation weve come to expect from our government and politicians.But the specter of Russia’s involvement has begun to loom larger and is far more concerning to former FBI officials, diplomats and cybersecurity experts who expressed concerns that Russia could be seeking to tip the electoral scales in favor of Clinton’s Republican opponent, Donald J. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.The ONLY explanation that makes sense for the the FBI and the DNCs total lack of urgency is this: The Russian hacking story was made up and both parties knew it full well. The embarrassing emails forced the resignation over the weekend of the party’s chairwoman, Rep.
Neither appears to have known the other was inside the computers.A number of cybersecurity experts have confirmed CrowdStrike’s findings, calling the evidence of the Russian involvement overwhelming.“There are Russian fingerprints all over this,” Rich Barger, chief intelligence officer of ThreatConnect, said in an interview.Russian hackers are no strangers to U.S. One of the hacking groups, believed to be run by the Russian security service FSB, was inside the DNC servers for at least a year the other, linked to the Russian military, penetrated the DNC systems in April. “And, you know, there is no basis for it.”Wikileaks has also dismissed claims that Russian hackers provided them with the emails, though they have not said where they acquired them.Getting to the bottom of whether Putin or the Russian government is behind the hack will be difficult, even if the FBI confirms the findings of CrowdStrike, a well-regarded cybersecurity firm that was hired by the DNC to investigate the hack.CrowdStrike in June issued a lengthy report “identifying two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries” as the hackers.
Government has taken a variety of actions in dealing with cyberespionage in the past. Officials now is how to respond. They are also believed to be responsible for the successful theft of data from the State Department and White House servers.Robert Anderson, a former top counter-espionage and cyber official at the FBI, said Russian spy services were known for being particularly aggressive and competent.“They will do everything they need to do to further their agenda,” he said, adding that he felt that any attempt to influence an election “crosses the line.”The dilemma for U.S.
To settle on an effective response. “Downgrading NATO, undoing treaties, praise for Putin.… What’s not to like at the Kremlin?”But he said it would be difficult for the U.S. Trump as president over Ms. Ambassador to Ukraine who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said he would not be surprised if it turned out that Russia was responsible for the intrusion and leaking of DNC emails.“Clearly they would like to see Mr.
“Then you might have a big backlash against the goal” of helping Trump.Times staff writers Christi Parsons and Michael A. Public wouldn’t react too well to knowing of Russian interference” in an election, he said.
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