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Putin on monday. jessica snyder has more details of the environment. >> reporter: 12 russian hackers are charged with hacking into the hillary clinton campaign and stealing u.s. voter data during the 2016 election. >> we know according to dime the goal of the conspirators was to have an impact in the election. >> reporter: the indictment details how the russian targeted more than 300 people associated with campaign committees and the hillary clinton campaign. this was the e-mail chairman john po...

Accounts of volunteers and employees of a u.s. presidential campaign, including the campaign chairman starting in march of 2016. they also hacked into the computer networks of a congressional campaign committee and a national political committee. the defendants covertly monitored the computers and planted hundreds of files malic code and stole e-mails and other documents. the conspirators created fictitious online personas, including d.c. leaks. they used those personas to release information, i...

Scheduled. despite the growing calls to cancel the meeting. le take you live to the presidential palace in helsinki, finland. the two leaders coming face-to-face here. and address the media after the sit down. observers wondering whether president president trump trump would be tough up in on putin on the 2016 election but then came a new twist. a grand jury indictment of 12 russians, high-level military officials from putins own government for hacking exactic emails and computer networks. then ...

Monday? supreme court. and then the kids were to be reunited. what a week. and then him on this trip ov-- overseas and meeting with vladimir putin and theresa may and now the indictment. so a lot to cover. >> happy friday night. >> see you soon. this is "cnn tonight." im don lemon. on the brink of the meeting with vladimir putin, a huge development in the mueller investigation. the justice department announcing indictments against a dozen russians and not just some shadowy hackers, all of them i...

The gru. the units engaged in active cyber operations to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. there was one unit that engaged in active cyber operations by stealing information, and a different unit that was responsible for disseminating the stolen information. the defendants used two techniques to steal information. first, they used a scheme known as spearfishing which involves sending misleading e-mail messages and tricking the users into disclosing their passwords and security informa...

Justice schneider picks up the coverage on the indictment. >> reporter: tonight, 12 russian intelligence officers charged with hacking into the e-mail servers of the democratic party and hillary clinton campaign and stealing u.s. voter data during the 2016 election. >> we know, according to the allegations, the goal was to impact the elections. >> reporter: the 20-page document shows how they were associated to the campaigns. this was the e-mail hillary clinton campaign chairman john podesta rec...

If you can get inside supposedly corporate and financial systems around the world, yes, they proved you can do damage, you can terrorize people. you can brick computers. you can spy on people. you can steal their documents and post them online. you can hold stuff for ransom. but if youve got those kind of skills, you can do a lot of different things once youve penetrated other peoples computer networks. and once youve got the ability to do that, its not that big of a leap to just start going str...

Presidential election. >> what we learned from the indictment is that the operation had two tracks, if you will. one track looked at stealing the information so getting the e-mails, getting text messages and the other was focused on disseminating that information. the deputy attorney general said this was very sophisticated. >> first, they used a scheme known as spearfishing which involves sending misleading e-mail messages and tricking the users to disclosing pass words and security information...

Two largest broadcasters in south korea as well. they got malware into the systems of those companies as well and they just disappeared their data, wiped stuff, shut them down. once youve got that kind of capabili capability you have options for what to do with it. if you can get inside supposedly corporate and financial systems around the world, yes, they proved you can do damage, you can terrorize people. you can brick computers. you can spy on people. you can steal their documents p and post ...

Some things about north korea are crazy. the particular perception that these military exercises might be a threat to them is not all that crazy. but their reaction to these frequent joint military exercises between the u.s. and south korea, their reaction to them is all over the map. its unpredictable. sometimes they have a mild reaction. sometimes they have a super over-the-top reaction. you never exactly know what theyre going to do. and in 2013, during joint military exercises between the so...