The FBI will brief Florida members of Congress next week about the claim that a Florida county was hacked by Russian intelligence in 2016, sources say
Previous reporting and government announcements have established that the GRU, Russian military intelligence, created an email phishing campaign aimed at Florida county election employees in the summer preceding the 2016 presidential election. But it wasn't until special counsel Robert Mueller's report was published that the public learned the FBI had investigated a particular county for actually being hacked.Florida Reps.
The GRU hackers then sent out phishing emails from Gmail accounts with VR Systems in its name, and with a malicious file attached to more than 120 county election officials.Read MoreMany of those emails were ignored, went to spam, or were properly flagged as a potential attack. The special counsel's claim was the first public indication that someone fell for them.
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