https://taskandpurpose.com/mueller-report-shanahan-russian-hackers
By Jeff Schogol
Task and Purpose
April 18, 2019
The Russians are not the only game in town when it comes to cyberwarfare,
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Thursday amid revelations in
the Mueller report about how Russian intelligence officers interfered with the
2016 presidential election.
Released on Thursday, a redacted copy of the report details how the GRU –
Russian military intelligence – broke into government, company, and personal
computers to steal a treasure trove of information that was used to smear
Hillary Clinton.
But the U.S. government is not helpless against Russian hackers, said Shanahan,
who has not read the Mueller report.
"The Russians present a risk," Shanahan told reporters on Thursday. "My job is
to manage the risk. We have tremendous capability at Cyber Command and the
NSA."
The Mueller report shows how GRU units waged a campaign aimed at tilting the
2016 election in then candidate Donald Trump's favor. The Russians ultimately
released hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks and other
organizations to interfere with the presidential election.
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