The FBI believes that Russia’s military intelligence agency successfully hacked into “the network of at least one Florida county government,” special counsel Robert Mueller’s…
The FBI believes that Russia’s military intelligence agency successfully hacked into “the network of at least one Florida county government,” special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed Thursday.
FBI officials assessed that Russia’s GRU infiltrated the unspecified Florida county as the result of broad campaign that targeted election-related entities in several states during the 2016 U. S. presidential race, according to the special counsel’s report.
Russian hackers compromised a company that sells voting equipment and then leveraged that access to mount a spear-phishing campaign in which booby-trapped emails were sent to Florida county officials involved in administering the 2016 election, Mr. Mueller wrote in the report.
“The spearphishing emails contained an attached Word document coded with malicious software (commonly referred to as a Trojan) that permitted the GRU to access the infected computer. The FBI was separately responsible for this investigation,” Mr. Mueller wrote.
“We understand the FBI believes that this operation enabled the GRU to gain access to the network of at least one Florida county government,” Mr.
