By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A hacker in Ukraine known as “Profexer” is cooperating with the FBI as it investigates Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election, the New York Times revealed Wednesday evening.
Profexer, who wrote and sold malware on the dark web, is accused of writing a program used to break into the Democratic National Committee servers and obtain thousands of emails that were leaked ahead of the election.
The hacker, whose real identity has not been released, turned himself into the FBI earlier this year and became a witness in the case. He has not been arrested, and there is no proof that he worked for Russian intelligence, according to Ukranian police.
But U.S. intelligence officials, based on a sample of the malware, believe Russians used the program to hack into the DNC.
The FBI, federal lawmakers and special counsel Robert Mueller are investigating whether Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to leak damaging information about Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.
