Donald Trump confirms cyber attack conducted against Russian group in 2018

It was in conversation with The Washington Post that Donald Trump confessed to having authorized the conduct of a cyber attack against the Russian agency, Internet Research Agency (IRA). In an interview with journalist Marc Thiessen, the President of the United States of America stated that the attack occurred in 2018, on the day of the midterm elections, and clarified that the objective of the attack was to wage a disinformation campaign, launched to cause confusion about the results of the act electoral. Trump said the campaign was successfully waged.

In 2016, the agency was one of those responsible for the cyberattack campaign that intervened in the US presidentials. One of the attacks resulted in theft of emails to the National Committee of the Democratic Party and 12 Russian agents were formally charged by the US government for the attack.

The campaign in question was streamlined with the help of bots, which flooded various social networks with fake content about the elections.

Donald Trump even questioned Russia's involvement in the attack, even after US intelligence services uncovered incriminating evidence, although he later acknowledged the facts.

In 2018 the organization at the governmental Center for Public Integrity already said that the retaliatory attack was being prepared by the Pentagon.

Still in conversation with The Washington Post, Trump suggested that Barack Obama did little against Russia's computer offensive, even after he became aware of it. On this statement, the newspaper presents the counterpoint: Obama not only drew attention to the case, publicly, as he suggested that President Vladimir Putin would be involved in the cyber attack. In December 2016, sanctions were also imposed as a result of the attack.