Hacking Expert: We Caught Russia In The Act
As Donald Trump and his surrogates continue to engage in dangerous denial of Russia's interference in our election and the intelligence community as a whole, one expert who knows of what he speaks made an appearance on Wolf Blitzer's show yesterday to knock a huge hole in Trump's arguments.
Trump has long dismissed the reports of Russian interference as ridiculous, going so far as to say it was maybe China or some 400-pound creepy guy in his mother's basement. Anything he can do to distract from Russia's interference, he's done.
But Dmitri Alperovitch, president of Crowdstrike, the security firm hired by the DNC and Clinton campaign to come in and deal with the hack, begs to differ, and he's got the goods to prove it.
Right out of the gate, Alperovitch tells Wolf Blitzer that his firm "did catch the Russians in the act when the DNC hired us back in May."
He continued to explain, "We deployed our technology and we watched these adversaries for a number of days and weeks as we were preparing to kick them out."
When Blitzer asked him to name the adversaries, Alperovitch pointed to two independent working groups. One is associated with the GRU, which he identifies as the "little green men" in Ukraine working to annex Crimea.
He went on to describe what they saw.