In 2016, the US agreed on a plan for using cyber weapons in Russian infrastructure systems in the event of a sharp deterioration of relations between countries.

This writes the Washington Post.

According to the publication, weapons are the "digital equivalent of a bomb". The launch must be approved personally by the president.

The developed weapons can disrupt the work of strategically important Russian networks. The technology was created by the US National Security Agency and can be used remotely.

The decision to develop the operation was a response to Moscow's interference in the presidential election in 2016. The administration of Barack Obama was afraid to take too harsh retaliatory measures not to provoke Russia, journalists say..

With the coming to power of Donald Trump, talk about the special operation subsided. It is allegedly at an early stage of development.

As reported by the "Observer", US intelligence has established that before the day of voting in the US presidential election, the computers of election commissions were massively attacked with the intervention of the Main Intelligence Agency of the Russian Federation.

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