The Download on the DNC Hack
Summary: Krebs explains he avoided covering the alleged Russian DNC hack and the Vermont utility malware because he had no original reporting to add and both stories are politically fraught. He notes the White House's FBI/DHS Joint Analysis Report cites computers worldwide co-opted by Russian intelligence services, that the FBI notified the Illinois Republican Party in June 2016 that its email accounts may have been hacked by the same group, and that the New York Times reported Russian hackers also broke into the RNC but released documents only on the Democrats.
Key Takeaway: The U.S. government's attribution rests on declassified assessments that Krebs says will leave security experts as evenly divided a year from now as they are today, and the named hacker Evgeniy Bogachev remains free despite a $3 million FBI bounty because he stays inside Russia's protective sphere.
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