Security experts widely derided a joint Homeland Security-FBI report released last week that purported to give technical indicators linking Russia to the breaches, calling it overly broad and “a mess.”ĬrowdStrike has gone much further in its published forensics analysis.
The White House has been under fierce pressure to provide a public account of the intelligence community's assessment. Trump noted in a tweet that Assange has asserted that the emails did not come from Russia, while repeating that anyone could have hacked the DNC. He also appeared to side with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who released emails believed to have been hacked by Russia, over U.S.
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In a series of tweets this week, he accused intelligence officials of delaying a briefing until Friday in order to build a case against Russia - an allegation denied by other officials. election, and officials have said they are “100 percent certain” that Russia is the culprit.īut President-elect Donald Trump Donald Trump Deputy AG: DOJ investigating fake Trump electors Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz elected to Baseball Hall of Fame Overnight Health Care - Senators unveil pandemic prep overhaul MORE has repeatedly rejected that assessment, characterizing it as an attempt by the Obama administration to undermine his presidency. The Obama administration has characterized the hacks as an attempt to interfere in the U.S. The report comes as controversy continues to surround the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia was behind the cyberattack on the DNC and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton The Armageddon elections to come Poll: Trump leads 2024 Republican field with DeSantis in distant second The politics of 'mind control' MORE campaign chairman John Podesta’s personal email account. There’s no reason to believe that anything that they have concluded is not accurate,” the intelligence official told BuzzFeed. Instead, the official said, the bureau and other agencies have relied on analysis done by the third-party security firm CrowdStrike, which investigated the breach for the DNC.