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Guys evolve and use countermeasures to defeat the abilities of the united states to spy on them and to track them to target them and so forth. >> wikileaks says there's a broader security problem here, if the cia can get its hands on these hacking tools, the bad guys can, too, that cyber criminals and other hackers, hostile countries' hacking teams possibly will be able to hack into people's phones, computers and tvs. contacted by cnns, the cia says it does not comment on the authenticity or content of purr porped intelligence documents. wolf? >> brian todd reporting. coming up the president...

That russia indeed and vladimir putin was behind the hacking in the election season. some of the things they are looking at, officials are telling us, are, in fact, those digital fingerprints. even able to track, perhaps, the key boards that were used with the alphabet in russia to engage in this hacking activity and those hacking tools are said to be so sophisticated, they mimic the kinds that the national security agency has. that's a part of the u.s. government engages in cyberactivity. not the common run of the mill activity the u.s. believes. and finally that the dispersal, the publicatio...

Cyber hacking tools that are used by the russian military intelligence agencies and are so sophisticated, as we've already reported, they're the equivalent of what the u.s. national security agency uses in its cyber activities. so another marker here that this was something that the u.s. increasingly believes tied right back to moscow, tied to vladimir putin, brianna. >> let's talk about another issue pertaining to russia. starting with a tweet that president-elect donald trump put out. he said the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the w...

Ensure that that didn't happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be some serious consequences if he didn't. and in fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process. >> but russia has a message back to the u.s. they say, prove it. >> cnn's brian todd has details for us. >> reporter: cnn's intelligence sources say vladimir putin was aware his cyber warriors were hacking into the democratic party during the election cycle. one u.s. official saying the sophistication of the hacking tools used in the attack means higher-level russian author...

Have required the senior most russian officials approval. it is a top heavy system. that means vladimir putin. since then, confidence has increased. that is because of the sophisticated hacking tools and cyber weapons. the most sophisticated which require vladimir putin to okay the use of the tools. that in addition to other intelligence and human sources leading to that conclusion that putin ordered this attack on the u.s. democratic system. the word they are using it continued unabated since the election on party institutions and party organizations, including and not limited to the democrat...