Russian hackers hacking Emmanuel Macron’s email

French media have received evidence of the involvement of two hacking groups linked to the Russian FSB, the email hacking of the election headquarters of the President of Emmanuel Macron.

The result of the reluctance of Moscow to cooperate with the investigation, the official Berlin was forced even to declare the expulsion of two Russian diplomats.

About the scandal in Paris, the beginning of which comes from the presidential campaign of Macron, reports “European true”.

We will remind, in may 2017 a result of the attack, Russian hackers have leaked online documents of the electoral headquarters of Macron in just a few hours before the official end of the campaign.

Then the National Agency for computer security of France stated that it found no interference by Russian hackers in the election campaign of the President of Macron.

Two years later, the newspaper Le Monde writes that he found evidence of the technical interventions hacking groups in the campaign in the presentation, Google research, which dealt with the fight against cyberpirates and was presented in late November at the specialized conference.

As writes the edition, the operation, two groups of Russian hackers began in early March, 2017 before the first round of presidential elections in France. In the cyber attack involved two of the hacker group APT28 (Fancy Bear) and Sandworm.

Recall, according to French media reports, the Russian spies used the French Alps as its base.

As reported by “FACTS,” the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions for cybercrime. They applied to seven Russian companies, as well as to individuals.