Mook didn't exactly pull his assertions out of his ass.
CrowdStrike disagrees with the AK-47 metaphor.
From your link:
CrowdStrike disagrees with the AK-47 metaphor.
From your link:
Quote:Mook added to this charge Monday, telling reporters, "All we know right now is what experts are telling us," which is that "Russian state actors were feeding the emails to hackers for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.”
In an article published Monday, The New York Times reported that researchers at CrowdStrike, an Irvine, Calif.-based cybersecurity firm, had concluded the breach was the work of two Russian intelligence agencies, or people working for or with them, possibly to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
Crowdstrike declined to comment for this article. However in May and June it blogged that an analysis it had completed of the long-known intrusion into the DNC's computer network was the work of Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries, one of whom it called Cozy Bear and the other Fancy Bear.
Russian hackers were implicated in a penetration into the DNC's computer network in June. At the time a federal law enforcement official confirmed the FBI had been investigating the breach for about a year. The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, declined comment on the source of the hack, but did not dispute an assertion that Russia was responsible.
