The man claims to be a developer of malware that affected the outcome of the latest presidential election in the United States.
Even though there has been co-operation in counter-terrorism, Mr. Pompeo says he still sees Russia primarily as an adversary.
The Moscow-based group known as Cozy Bear is widely suspected of a successful cyber penetration of the Democratic Party and is believed to be linked to the Russian government.
Russia has not been so hostile to the UK and the West since the end of the Cold War, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said, as he prepares to meet his counterpart in Moscow, according to the Daily Mail.
Disguised Russian agents on Twitter rushed to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump just before last year's presidential election while straining to refocus criticism on the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton's campaign, according to an Associated Press analysis of since-deleted accounts.
Russia used social media to sow chaos and divide Americans during the 2016 election, U.S. Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.
On October 15, the Russian independent news network Dozhd published the latest development in this ongoing story: an interview with a man who allegedly worked in 2014-2015 for the IRA, Internet Research Agency, the “troll factory” responsible for buying ads on social media and polluting American online news discussion in an apparent effort to destabilize U.S. democracy, according to Meduza.
Facebook Inc. is looking to hire people who have national security clearances, a move the company thinks is necessary to prevent foreign powers from manipulating future elections through its social network, according to a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports.
Google for the first time has uncovered evidence that Russian operatives exploited the company’s platforms in an attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the company's investigation, according to The Washington Post.
The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday largely endorsed the findings of the intelligence community that Russia sought to sway the 2016 U.S. elections through a hacking and influence campaign, and they called for a "more aggressive, whole-of-government approach" to ensure future elections are not similarly compromised, according to The Washington Post.
A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump's victory last November, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation, CNN wrote in its exclusive report.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that the company will hand over more than 3,000 Russia-linked political ads to Congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, according to Time magazine.
President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort offered to provide "private briefings" on the 2016 race to a Russian billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin, The Hill reported citing The Washington Post.
U.S. investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.