This week, cybersecurity researchers produced compelling new evidence linking Russia’s GRU military intelligence service to the hacks of Democrats during the 2016 campaign.
The findings, released in an 11-page report by the firm CrowdStrike, showed that the same group of hackers who broke into the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s inbox had also backdoored a mobile app used by Ukrainian soldiers to target artillery, with devastating results.
Democrats, looking for proof that the Kremlin had indeed hacked the DNC, saw the report as partisan ammunition. The researchers were able to identify shared digital fingerprints to show that the …read more
Source: European Voice
