The british government has estimated on Thursday that he was "almost certain" that Russian agents had tried to disrupt the elections in December 2019 through the circulation of documents about the trade negotiations between London and Washington.

" On the basis of a comprehensive analysis, the government has concluded that it is almost certain that Russian agents have sought to interfere in the legislative elections of 2019 in boosting online dissemination of government documents obtained in an illicit way ", said the minister of foreign Affairs Dominic Raab in a written statement to Parliament.

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Attempts flight around the research of vaccines

The government agency british in charge of cyber security has also accused Thursday a group of hackers take it to organizations of british, canadian and american to steal their research in the development of a vaccine against the new coronavirus, saying that it is "almost certain" that they operate for the information Russian.

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"The threat group, known under the name of APT29" or "Dukes" or "Cozy Bear ""operates almost certainly be in the framework of the intelligence services of the Russian," said in a statement the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), adding that its american counterparts and the canadians had arrived at the same conclusion.