Nearly 80 AP interviews find only two cases in which FBI advised policymakers that Fancy Bear cyber-spy group was trying to hack their accountsThe FBI failed to inform scores of US officials that Russian hackers were trying to wreck into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year,an investigation found. The Associated Press committed two months and a small team of reporters to go through a hit list of targets of Fancy Bear, a Russian government-aligned cyberespionage group, or that was provided by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks. Previous investigations based on the list had shown how Fancy Bear worked in close alignment with the Kremlin’s interests to steal tens of thousands of emails from the Democratic party. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk