march of 2018, the homeland security department and the fbi issued publicly a joint technical alert. this alert provides information on the actions targeting government entities and the water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors and contact dhs or law enforcement immediately to interpret an intrusion and request incident response resources or tension cal assistance. the first warning that had been reported on by the new york times was not a public warning. the second one, the technical bulletin was effectively a public warning although full of technical information including specific mal wear, specific computer code lines that they wanted operators of the critical elements of the infrastructure to look for in their systems. by that point, by march of last year, the threat and the warnings from the u.s. government were getting more
showing that some voters had cast ballots while the voters themselves said they had not. it was prompts workers to asked sk for voters s picture ids even though a law had been struck down legally by the courts. what mueller s report is raising is new questions. russian intelligence targeted employees of a voting technology company that developed software used by numerous counties to manage voter roles and stole mal wear on the company network. the company acknowledged that they may be the one referenced and denied the network was breached. mueller s investigation charged nearly 30 officials as we recall or companies for the alleged roles in election interference in 2016. last week mueller wrapped up remarks with a warning about the challenge ahead. i will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments.
people opened up the e-mail and it downloaded the mal wear and the russians got in. it was sophisticate and it looks like a vote in the security firm and didn t look like a banker scam. what s interesting there is desantis is disclosing this was a spear fishing attack. this is what happened. disclosing the names of the counties is not going to disclose the sensitive investigative techniques of the fbi. we are once again back at square one of the fbi saying look. they say look, the counties are the victims. the second can disclose and the county works for the victim and the state overseeing the counties is not allowed to disclose because we made the governor sign an nda and they can t disclose because of their clearances. we are back to square one, wondering what the hell is going
desk figuring out the code for the mal wear. what he appears to have done in the past for his clients that he s the guy who makes arrangements about this stuff. he s the guy who makes the arrangements for targeted hacking to happen, and for the material obtained by targeted hacking to be used to maximum benefit for his clients. he s apparently the one who ranges the hack and weapon eyeses whatever is stolen in the hack. who knows who his team is, who he has doing these hacks, but the time is added to our understanding of this part of the case is all the different ways in which rinat akhmetshin appears to be connected to russian intelligence. when the deputy head of russian intelligence had to come to washington to do a dog and pony show a few years ago, the guy who shepherded him around washington and went to the
documents and filings. he is 33 years old and from russia. he has been in russia and lives along a black sea where he likes to go boating. that s the person as far as what he has done in the cyber world, they started tracking him going back three or four or five years now. he put out a mal wear program that was able to get on a million computers. it goes in and takes your user name and password and takes your banking information. they say he was able to use that software program along with a group of other hackers to take $100 million over the past several years. he is charging that case and indicted it in pittsburgh. he has been indicted in nebraska and this is somebody who they call one of the world s worst. they say his software is sophisticated and they have been keeping an eye on for sometime.