Senators show how Russian hackers targeted U.S. military families
While much of the focus on Russian interference efforts over the past week has centered on the latest revelations about hacking and infiltration of the National Rifle Association (NRA), a letter written by a pair of senators highlights a different, potentially far darker strain of Moscow’s methods.
The letter, addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, comes from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO). Sent last week, it details how Russian hackers posed as Islamic extremists — and targeted American military families in the process.
And according to one of the military spouses targeted by the hackers, the U.S. government has done nothing about it....
...But now, it appears the “Cyber Caliphate” never actually had anything to do with ISIS. As the AP wrote in May, the “repeated overlap” between the “Cyber Caliphate” operations and those of APT28 — the GRU unit accused of hacking the Democratic National Committee — shows that the military families were actually being targeted by members of Russia’s foreign military intelligence, not Islamist extremists.
https://thinkprogress.org/senators-detail-how-russian-hackers-targeted-american-military-families-017090e15f1b/
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