“We are ready to take on a pro-active role in investigating this crime. The King Servers boss says there was absolutely no way the company could have known it was being used for malicious activity, as it can only catch wrongdoing after the fact. Read more US intel head suggests Russia behind DNC hacks, says Moscow tried to affect elections in past According to Fomenko, “this may have scared the criminals off, allowing them to cover their traces.” He adds that it was peculiar that the FBI chose to allow news reports to spread before anything was done. Hackers are a common threat and we must fight it together.” “ We are ready to assist in probing this crime and consulting the FBI or other services on such issues. We have learnt certain things and are ready to share it with special services at their first call.”Īsked why the FBI still has not taken advantage of this opportunity, Fomenko said he had “no idea you’d better ask them.” “No one blames Mark Zuckerberg when criminals use Facebook for their own ends? … As soon as we learnt our servers were involved, we disconnected the perpetrators from our equipment. “Thinking that the criminals must likewise also be from Russia is just absurd,” he says. He also believes that the only connection to Russia the Americans really have is the servers being from there. In fact, he recently told the New York Times that “If the FBI asks, we are ready to supply the IP addresses, the logs.” However, he says, “Nobody is asking… It’s like nobody wants to sort this out.”įomenko tells RT he was as surprised to learn from US media that his company was somehow implicated. And foreign cyberspies, both parties can agree, are one special interest group that has no place in American democracy.Read more ‘This could be Russia, this could be a 400lb guy’ – Trump & Hillary react to DNC hackīut the 26-year-old from Biysk, in western Siberia, is far from being scared or unwilling to cooperate. federal agencies, for all their cybersecurity disasters, at least have massive national resources backing them. While opposition research information represents a juicy digital target, more troubling still would be the possibility for foreign governments' intelligence agencies to influence domestic electoral politics by choosing a side and disrupting the other's campaign strategy. In fact, the threat of hackers attacking campaign organizations could extend well beyond November. "Attacks against electoral candidates and the parties they represent are likely to continue up until the election in November."
"The 2016 presidential election has the world’s attention, and leaders of other states are anxiously watching and planning for possible outcomes," Crowdstrike's Alperovitch writes.
Our team moved as quickly as possible to kick out the intruders and secure our network.”Ĭrowdstrike's Alperovitch echoes the warning that the DNC breach may not be the last hack of the 2016 election season. “When we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to CrowdStrike immediately. “The security of our system is critical to our operation and to the confidence of the campaigns and state parties we work with,” congresswoman and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz wrote in a press statement. The intruders, according to Crowdstrike and the DNC officials who spoke to the Washington Post, fully accessed the campaign organization's emails and chats, and stole opposition research on Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. On Tuesday, security firm Crowdstrike revealed that not one but two groups of hackers believed to be based in Russia had done just that.
Today's spies and saboteurs can breach the DNC's computer network far more quietly. Four decades ago, breaking into the files of the Democratic National Committee meant burglarizing the headquarters at the Watergate hotel.