“It is not like they are trying to get one particular candidate elected. They want to make it look so that whoever loses feel that this was not a fair election and people would not trust the results of the vote. Ultimately they want to break democracy itself in India and around the world wherein it is seen like a less legitimate system. That’s their ultimate goal to send message to the public that democracy cannot be trusted,” Porter said.
He said there is “no doubt” that the Russian government is behind these latest cyber hacking into the Democratic party and those of the top officials of the Clinton Campaign.
FireEye’s iSIGHT team for the past several years has tracked and analyzed the two Russian state-sponsored groups behind this attack APT 28 & APT 29.
FireEye is a publicly listed enterprise cybersecurity company that provides products and services to protect against advanced cyber threats such as advanced persistent threats and spear phishing.
“I believe that APT 28 knew that they would be traced back to Russia, when they did the operation and that is kind of trying to send the US Government a message. It is definitely the Russian Government and they wanted the US Government to know about it as well,” Porter claimed.
Noting that the Russian Government’s hacking groups are good as anyone in the world, he said they are lead hackers and they can get into very sensitive secrets.
“They can get into companies. They can conduct attack that can disable critical infrastructure like power plants.
