US intelligence services have released an analysis detailing how federal investigators believe the Russian government was behind hacks of the 2016 US election.
In a joint report issued on Thursday, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided technical details about the tools and cyber infrastructure they said Russian civilian and military intelligence services used for the hack attack, code named Grizzly Steppe.
The document said the cyber attack was carried out to “compromise and exploit networks and endpoints associated with the US election, as well as a range of US government, political, and private sector entities.”
However, it did not mention by name the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta, whose emails were hacked and released during the campaign.
Federal investigators believe the initial cyber attack began in the summer of 2015 when a hacking unit, dubbed APT29, sent…