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Also, his own online criminal activity was complicated in a pro-putin russian government operation. i'll quote this part from today's "new york times." peter severa ran a family of computer viruses. a sophisticated evolving family of computers called waledec and kelihos. the kelihos virus has been designed to spread spam, but during the election in 2012 it was used to send political messages to e-mail accounts on computers with russian e-mail accounts that led to fake news stories that vladimir putin came out as gay. these viruss made him fabulously wealthy. when buzzfeed wrote up this story t...

Secrecy is paramount. cutting edge technology, just as crucial from forensic laps to mining data, to that which is used to extract the most infectious computer viruses. >> many of them don't have the ability to actually do something like this. >> reporter: with key election ns some of those states this year, online espionage and ex portion has increased thanks to the availability of hackers for hire. >> they would be using advanced exploits, things never seen before. the use is difficult to detect. >> cyberinvestigations soaring 200% since 2013. >> i think cybercrime is our longer enduring sec...

Mining data to hardware to signal blocking used to extract computer viruses. >> many of them have the ability to actually do something with them. >> reporter: with key elections in some of those states, online espionage and extortion has increased thanks to the availability of hackers for hire. >> they will be using advanced p things, that have never seen before, unknown to the security companies. the use of these type of tactics is extremely difficult to detect. >> the trend has sent cyberinvestigations soaring 200% since 2013. >> i think cybercrime is probably our longest, most enduring secu...

Anything from the russia investigation or will it remain classified? fox news katherine harris is here. >> thank you, tucker. we had the support last week from homeland security and the fbi which was really thin in terms of the data about russia that included. i did identify two computer viruses, schemes to get information. now, that is not a direct link to russia, but these are viruses, if you will come of that are used by the russian intelligence services. my information is that there is a lot more intelligence beyond what was released last week. the question for the intelligence community i...

Anything from the russia investigation or will it remain classified? fox news katherine harris is here. >> thank you, tucker. we had the support last week from homeland security and the fbi which was really thin in terms of the data about russia that included. i did identify two computer viruses, schemes to get information. now, that is not a direct link to russia, but these are viruses, if you will come of that are used by the russian intelligence services. my information is that there is a lot more intelligence beyond what was released last week. the question for the intelligence community i...