By calculations

The American authorities for the first time directly accused Moscow of holding a large -scale campaign in order to influence the 2016 elections, including by hacker attacks on computers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party and other political figures. This was reported by the NBC with reference to the statement of the Director of National Intelligence and the Ministry of Internal Security.

“We believe, based on the volume and orientation of these efforts that only the highest officials of Russia could resolve this activity,” the document says. “Such activities are not new for Moscow - Russia used such tactics and equipment throughout Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion.”

On September 6, The Washington Post reported that the American intelligence agencies will study the "possible plans of Russia to discredit the American electoral system." Then it was known about attacks on systems in the States of Arizona and Illinois. According to the interlocutors of the publication, the goal of the large -scale secret operation of Russia is to undermine the trust of the American public to the upcoming presidential election and political institutions of the United States. According to another source, the Kremlin wants not so much to directly affect the election results as to create chaos and discredit the American political system in the world. At the same time, the calculation is made to the audience of post -Soviet countries.

In addition, the FBI is investigating cyber attacks on American media and commercial organizations. Russian hackers are suspected of involvement in them. The Russian trace was also found in attacks on computer systems of the US Democratic Party . On September 28, it became known that the FBI is also investigating attempts to hack mobile phones of the leaders of the Democratic Party. They are also suspected of hackers, whom the Russian authorities "supports."

On September 26, a candidate from the Democratic Party Hillary Clinton during a television department with his rival Donald Trump said that there is no doubt about the sponsor of Cyberataka against "all types of organizations in our country."

On September 29, the FBI director James Komi, speaking at the House of Representatives of the US Congress, said new attempts to hack voter registration sites in more than 10 US states. "There were many network scans that usually precede attempts to penetrate the system, as well as some failed attempts to penetrate the voter database, in addition to those that we knew about in July and August," Komi said. "We urge all the states to make sure that their protection system is working"

FBI investigators are concerned that Russian intelligence can be behind cyber attacks. According to Komi, the FBI "very, very carefully" studies the possible involvement of Russia in these attacks. The FBI believes that they can be undertaken in order to influence the electoral process in the United States.

On September 2, in an interview with Bloomberg, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia at the state level has never been engaged in hacker attacks on electronic resources of the US Democratic Party. “I don’t know anything about this. You know, so many hackers today, and they act so filigree, so subtly, can show their“ trace ”in the right place and at the right time. This is an absolutely unrevustable thing, if it is possible to check it. In any case, we don’t definitely do this at the state level,” Putin said.