A Post story wouldn't provide enough detail, so CrowdStrike had prepared a technical report to go online later that morning. The DNC knew that this wild claim would have to be backed up by solid evidence. The Democrats decided to go public.ĭigitally exfiltrating and then publishing possibly manipulated documents disguised as freewheeling hacktivism is crossing a big red line and setting a dangerous precedent The Trump campaign, after all, was getting friendly with Russia. Democratic political operatives suspected that not one but two teams of Putin's spies were trying to help Trump and harm Clinton. CrowdStrike found no evidence of collaboration between the two intelligence agencies inside the DNC's networks, "or even an awareness of one by the other," the firm wrote. APT 28, identified as Russia's military intelligence agency GRU, had breached the Democrats only in April 2016, and probably tipped off the investigation. Follow along here.ĬrowdStrike linked both groups to "the Russian government's powerful and highly capable intelligence services." APT 29, suspected to be the FSB, had been on the DNC's network since at least summer 2015. This story is part of Motherboard's hacking theme week, The Hacks We Can't See.
The two groups were well-known in the security industry as "APT 28" and "APT 29." APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat-usually jargon for spies.
After deploying their tools on the DNC's machines, and after about two hours of work, CrowdStrike found "two sophisticated adversaries" on the Committee's network.
Then, in early May, the DNC called in CrowdStrike, a security firm that specializes in countering advanced network threats. Nearly two months earlier, in April, the Democrats had noticed that something was wrong in their networks.
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