Hackers from Russia is suspected of new attacks on the United States

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Хакеров из России подозревают в новых атаках на СШАRight after winning the trump hacker group Cozy Bear attacked the American research centers.

A group of Russian hackers started cyber attacks on American think tanks a few hours after the victory of Donald trump in the presidential election in the United States. This was announced by the three companies involved in cybersecurity.

According to them, to the attacks involved a group of Cozy Bear, which is presumably related to the Russian authorities and already suspected of hacking the Democratic party before the election. As stated in an interview with Reuters, Jaime Blasco, the AlienVault cybersecurity company, Russian hackers, probably trying to gather information about what will happen in Washington after the election and during the transition period.

Neither the Russian Embassy in Washington nor the FBI gave yet to comment, according to Reuters. A former senior official of the administration of current President Barack Obama told Reuters that the White house decided to take action against Moscow in connection with hacker attacks after the election, but has not yet decided which ones. Among options under consideration: the Prosecutor’s investigation in respect of a particular Russians, who are behind the hacks, new economic sanctions against Russia and retaliatory cyberattacks.

Previously the grouping of Cozy Bear has been charged with the attack on several analytical centers in the United States. Those hackers probably stood behind the hacking of the National Committee of the US Democratic party (DNC), after which WikiLeaks had made public nearly 20 thousand emails related to the election campaign of Hillary Clinton.

American cybersecurity experts believe the group Cozy Bear is associated with Russia’s FSB. For the second group of crackers, Fancy Bear, also attacked the servers of the DNC, according to experts, can be the Russian military.

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