Sentences with phrase «russian hacking campaign»

Obama ordered the intelligence community to conduct a full review of the Russian hacking campaign — and how it may have affected the presidential election — soon after the CIA report was leaked.

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The director would not say whether the probe has turned up evidence that Trump associates may have schemed with Russians during a campaign marked by email hacking that investigators believe was aimed at helping the Republican defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The hacking campaign «depended on key people in the US Russian émigré community for its success,» the dossier states.

Cohen said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by, or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party, or about creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Clinton campaign.

Former economy minister Macron's team has complained in the past about attempts to hack its emails during a fraught campaign, blaming Russian interests in part for the cyber attacks.

«I'm not happy about being hacked by the Russians in their quest to throw the election to Donald Trump,» campaign chairman John Podesta tweeted.

U.S. intelligence agencies have previously charged that a separate Russian effort hacked Democratic Party and Clinton campaign emails and leaked them to WikiLeaks in an effort to sway the election.

There was clearly a kind of public collusion by Trump and his campaign with the Russian hacking.

Graham added that he is confident it was the Russians, and not «some 400 - pound guy sitting on his bed,» who hacked the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, during the election.

A new report from NBC News said Mueller was scrutinizing what Trump knew about the Russian - backed campaign to hack into the Democratic National Committee in the summer of 2016, and whether Trump had any role in the radical pro-transparency group WikiLeaks» subsequent dissemination of the stolen emails.

Current and former U.S. officials who spoke to the Times anonymously said they found no evidence that the Trump campaign was working with the Russians on hacking or other efforts to influence the election.

Two independent cybersecurity firms had already reported separately that the Russian hacking group known variously as Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm and APT 28 (or Advanced Persistent Threat 28), appeared to be targeting the Macron campaign.

During the campaign, the Democratic National Committee was hacked, and many of its emails leaked via WikiLeaks — an act that some elements within the CIA believe was part of a Russian effort to help Donald Trump win the election.

The statement is the closest Putin has come to acknowledging the view of US intelligence agencies that Russian hackers were behind the hacking campaigns targeting Democrats during last year's election.

Now, as FBI special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional intelligence committees continue to investigate Russia's election interference, evidence is emerging that the hacking and disinformation campaign waged at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin took at least four separate but related paths.

The campaign website of a controversial US politician was hacked last year and hosted Russian SEO spam, according to several sources.

He repeats «no collusion» again and again, despite well - reported episodes such as the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, outreach to Russians by campaign aides George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, and his own efforts to egg on more hacking of Hillary Clinton and to trumpet memos released by pro-Russia WikiLeaks.

He said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party or creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Hillary Clinton campaign.

As the recent presidential campaign turned US attention to Russia — with reports of Trump's alleged ties to the Russian president as well as alleged hacking by Russian operatives in hopes of influencing the election — Russians were following American politics too.

Or perhaps the Russians obtained information about voters (e.g. by hacking the state election system) that the campaign then used.

It seems to me that what most people typically mean when they say «Trump colluded with Russia to win the election» is, quite simply, that Trump, or his campaign, knowingly met with some key people from Russia (who either were government officials, or had connections to government officials) and received help from these Russians in order to help Trump's campaign, and this particular «help» from the Russians was illicitly obtained by them in the first place (e.g. through hacking).

The House intelligence committee next week plans to interview John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign chairman whose hacked email account became central to Russian meddling in the US election last year, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

At the beginning of her town hall on Trump's first 30 days at the Union Temple of Brooklyn in Prospect Heights, Clarke bluntly described Trump's presidency as the product of an «illegally hacked, illegitimate election» — a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin's campaign of cyber interference in the election process confirmed by the intelligence community and former President Barack Obama.

According to sources familiar with the ongoing investigation, Mueller also has been probing whether anyone associated with the Trump campaign may have helped Assange or the Russians time or target the release of hacked emails and other social media promoting Trump or critical of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

Podesta has said he was hacked by Russian intelligence agencies to benefit Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

The NRCC became aware of the hack in October, and it has been the subject of whispers throughout the Republican campaign world in recent days, with one source comparing it, jokingly, to Russian hacking during the 2016 election.

Russians may have hacked internal Democratic Party emails to help Trump, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said.

The CIA and FBI say the Russians meddled in the elections by hacking Democratic National Committee emails and other files to help President - elect Donald Trump in the campaign.

The Obama Administration has accused the Russian government of supplying Wikileaks with the hacked emails of important officials in the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.

«Even though I lived in Russia, and spent so much time working on Russian issues, I left the campaign before the alleged hacking of the DNC happened.»

AirTalk brings you the latest on the DNC's lawsuit alleging that Trump campaign associates conspired with the Russian government and hacked the Democratic Party's computer networks.

Asked about charges by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook that «Russian state actors» hacked the DNC in order to help Trump, who has made sympathetic comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, Manafort on Sunday dismissed the charges in multiple television interviews as «absurd» and «crazy.»

No votes were changed, but the effort — alongside a concerted Russian disinformation and hacking campaign — exposed dangerous vulnerabilities in the voting systems and the government's ability to respond.

securityaffairs.co - iSIGHT Partners firm uncovered a Russian hacking team dubbed Sandworm that was running a cyber espionage campaign on NATO and other Government entities.

APT28 is one of the two Russian groups that hacked into the Democratic National Committee's email servers during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign.