![]() However, intelligence officials assessed with “high confidence” that Iran was behind the threatening emails, according to a U.S. government announced indictments against alleged Russian hackers working for Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate, or the GRU, in connection with the global NotPetya malware attacks and interference in French elections, each of which took place three years ago, as well as attacks against Ukraine’s power grid that began in 2015. The disclosure came quickly after Motherboard on Tuesday reported on a surge of suspicious emails that seemed to use technical means to try to hide their sender and origin. Attribution against hackers, particularly those with nation-state backing, has sometimes taken U.S. Neither Ratcliffe nor FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was also at the briefing, provided any technical evidence to support the allegation that the emails, purported to be sent by the Proud Boys as threats to Democratic voters in Florida to vote for President Donald Trump, in fact were sent by Iranian attackers. government had determined Iran was behind an email campaign meant to intimidate American voters. ![]() officials have sparked an entirely new set of questions: Why were they able to connect Iran to the attack so quickly, and how?ĭuring a briefing announced to reporters 10 minutes before it began Wednesday, John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, said the U.S. By trying to quickly resolve concerns about an apparent Iranian influence operation and bolster Americans’ confidence the country’s electoral process, U.S. ![]()
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