US intelligence agencies are working with European governments to prevent the kind of Russian cyber attacks that were allegedly carried out to influence the 2016 US presidential election, a new reports says.
The US intelligence community has shared with foreign governments the classified version of their report on what they believe was a Russian plot to help Republican President Donald Trump defeat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, POLITICO reported, citing senior intelligence officials and lawmakers.
Key American lawmakers say such an intelligence exchange is vital because Russia reportedly plans to carry out similar cyber attacks in Europe to influence elections in a way that serves Moscow’s interests.
“It’s widely understood” that Moscow wants to expand “Russian political influence in Europe, that they want to prop up populists,” a senior intelligence official said. “Their goal is still to do what they can to weaken NATO, the…