The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday imposed asset freezes on senior Russian officials believed to have authorized cyberattacks as part of the Kremlin's alleged strategy to influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. The designations, which target Russia's FSB and GRU intelligence agencies, FSB chief Igor Korobov, three of his deputies and three companies, come two months after the Obama administration officially accused Moscow of orchestrating the hacking of thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee and the head of Hilary Clinton's campaign team, and providing them to Wikileaks. Russia orchestrated the operation to sway the election in...
A former U.K. agent has claimed in an unverified, previously secret dossier published Tuesday that Russian officials threatened to blackmail U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and attempted to infiltrate Western financial institutions.
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