Media: FBI conducts at least three cases about Russian cyberats

The FBI is investigating at least three cases of Russian cyber attacks, committed on the eve of the latest presidential elections in the United States. This was reported by Reuters with reference to five former and current American government officials.

The first investigation is the department of the special services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is trying to install persons who have hacking the local network of the National Committee of the Democratic Party. It is reported that the case is moving. At the same time, the US Ministry of Justice considers the evidence collected insufficient for the charge.

The department in San Francisco, California, finds out which persons are hiding under the pseudonym Guccifer 2. On behalf of Hacker with such a nickname, the correspondence of John Podesta, chief of the election headquarters of the Democrats Hillary Clinton, was published.

Finally, the headquarters of the FBI in Washington is studying the certificates of informants and intercepted foreign messages. Special services agents, in particular, are investigating financial transactions of Russian citizens and firms allegedly related to the environment of the current president Donald Trump.

On January 6, on the website of the apparatus of the US National Intelligence Director , a declassified version of the report prepared by the CIA, the FBI and the NSA was published . It states that Russia's interference in the course of the presidential campaign in the United States was undertaken by the personal instructions of Vladimir Putin. The then President of Barack Obama, like Trump, were familiar with the full version of the report.

The goals of Russian intervention was called intelligence undermining the public confidence in the American presidential election, Clinton discrediting and Trump support. Russia, the report says, sought to undermine the liberal-democratic order, the support of which in the world is the United States, since the promotion of democracy Putin and its environment is perceived as a threat to its regime.

Trump recognized the role of Russia in attacks on the National Committee of the Democratic Party.

On January 9, members of the US Congress from the Democratic Party called for the creation of an independent commission to investigate the Russian cyber attacks on the country's electoral system.

On February 14, The New York Times reported that the team members of Trump who participated in his election campaign have repeatedly contacted the Russian special services . This, the newspaper reported, is confirmed by intercepted telephone conversations.