Two major federal agencies have issued a bombshell joint report showing the proof that the Russian Federation meddled in the general election.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused two Russian intelligence services (referred to as “RIS” in the report) in the
“Grizzly Steppe” report issued on December 29th of hacking into the Democratic National Committee’s digital infrastructure in the summer of 2015, and again in the spring of 2016. For the sake of brevity, the agencies identified the hackers as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) 28 and 29.
The report confirmed that the contents of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s email account were obtained via a tactic known as “spearphishing,” in which a malicious code is sent to thousands of different recipients in the hopes that some of them will click, thereby granting a hacker access to sensitive information contained within an email account.