Ricketts was one of five military wives who received death threats from the self-styled CyberCaliphate on the morning of Feb. 10, 2015. The operation also parallels the online disinformation campaign by Russian trolls in the months leading up to the U.S. election in 2016. Links between CyberCaliphate and the Russian hackers — typically nicknamed Fancy Bear or APT28 — have been documented previously. Lee Foster, a manager with cybersecurity company FireEye, said the repeated overlap between Russian hackers and CyberCaliphate made it all but certain that the groups were linked. The trolls — Russian employees paid to seed American social media with disinformation — often hyped the threat of ISIS militants to the United States.

Source: Fox News May 08, 2018 19:52 UTC