{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hurd.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/hurd-lawmakers-russian-hacking-intel-we-need-be-really-careful", "Hurd to lawmakers on Russian hacking intel: We need to be really careful", "2016-12-14", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Will Hurd", "H001073", "hurd.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "The only sitting member in the House of Representatives to have served in the CIA is advising fellow lawmakers to tread carefully with the information they collect during ongoing investigations focused on Russian hacking related to the recent presidential campaign.\nRep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, worked in the CIA for 9 years, spending time as an undercover intelligence officer in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. He recently told CyberScoop that human intelligence \u2014 agents on the ground \u2014 would likely be necessary to make an accurate assessment concerning the motivation and intention of those individuals who ordered a digital break in at the Democratic National Committee.\n\u201cHaving some of this evidence declassified, I think we need to be really careful because we\u2019re talking about people\u2019s lives. Whatever we decide, whatever we declassify, Russian intelligence will be studying it very closely,\u201d Hurd said.\nEvidence uncovered by the New York Times backs Hurd\u2019s assumption, noting that \u201chuman and technical\u201d sources in Russia aided the intelligence community\u2019s conclusion that Russian intelligence forces were involved in the DNC data breach.\nHurd\u2019s outreach comes as Congress is pressuring the White House to declassify additional material related to data breaches at multiple U.S. political organizations. The intelligence community\u2019s analysis will be laden with information concerning the tactics, sources, tools and procedures used by U.S. spies to attribute cyberattacks, Hurd says. And that material must be handled with extreme caution.\nOn Friday, The White House revealed that President Barack Obama had recently commissioned U.S. intelligence agencies to compile a comprehensive report containing information about malicious cyber activity aimed at past presidential elections. Deputy press secretary Eric Schultz told journalists that that this report would be completed before inauguration day and shared with congress and potentially, in a redacted form, with the public.\nIn the scope of uncovering new evidence and having a more open discussion about the influence of Russian hacking \u2014 especially as it pertains to the presidential election \u2014 politicians will need to walk a tightrope between responsible disclosure and protecting valuable intelligence assets, former intelligence officials say.\nThere is also some doubt as to whether a high profile exposure of the alleged Russian hackers \u2014 known to cybersecurity experts as APT28 \u2014 will ultimately impact the group\u2019s ability to conduct missions, according to FireEye Intelligence Analysis Manager Christopher Porter.\n\u201cThere exists a common perception that exposure is always good or useful in degrading a cyber threat group\u2019s operations \u2026 [but] Russia-based groups have shown notable resilience in continuing their operations in the face of exposure. APT28, for example, had its operations exposed more than 20 times between Oct. 2014 and Oct. 2015, and not only sustained operations but became increasingly bold,\u201d explained Porter, a former CIA intelligence officer. \u201cIn many cases, operations were entirely uninterrupted because APT28 was able to tap into a seemingly endless armory of zero-days or to retool and shift its infrastructure within 24 hour.\u201d\nATP28\u2019s \u201cresilience,\u201d Porter told CyberScoop, is driven in part by the group\u2019s ability to quickly adapt whenever new information about their targets becomes available. In one case, FireEye noticed APT28\u2019s behavior began to change \u2014 making them more difficult to track \u2014 after the group was able to hack into a private cybersecurity firm\u2019s content management system, where they gained access to an unpublished threat intelligence report.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hurd.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/hurd-lawmakers-russian-hacking-intel-we-need-be-really-careful"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.226483076810837, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}