12th russian military officer are charged with conspiring to infiltrate computers of organizations involved in administering election, including state boards of election, secretaries of state and companies that supply software used to administer elections. according to the allegations in the indictment, the defendants work for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the russian general state known as the gru. the units engaged in active cyber operations to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. there was one unit that engaged in active cyber operations by stealing information and a different unit that was responsible for decimating the stolen information. the indictment goes into technical detail of exactly what each russian military officer did in this international criminal conspiracy and how each