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The Kremlin rejected the GRU cyber attack on the software developer in the United States
The main intelligence department (GRU) did not make cyber attacks on the developer of software for election in the United States. This was announced by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports.
“This statement is absolutely not true, we did not see any other information, we did not hear any arguments in favor of the reliability of this information, and, accordingly, we resolutely refute the possibility that this could be,” he said, clarifying that the US National Security (ANB) report in the Kremlin did not get acquainted.
On June 5, The Intercept published a classified ANB report, which spoke about Russian intelligence cyber intelligence for one of the election software developers. The aim of the attack was to obtain information about the program that is used in the voting system, the report was noted.
A few days before the election of the US President, hackers from GRU also allegedly sent about 100 phishing letters.
The Ministry of Internal Security emphasized that the data collected by hackers did not belong to the counting of votes and could not affect the outcome of the elections. As explained in the NSA, hackers investigated the process of registering voters.
Information was transferred to the publication by an employee of Pluribus International Corporation Reility Lee Winner. This company fulfills the Pentagon and special services contracts. A day after the release of the article, she was arrested on charges of transmitting classified data in the media. According to NBC News, she fully pleaded guilty.