Hmm... that changes the hypothesis tabled so far
So far, the working assumption was that someone has managed to counter-strike a jump host which was not cleaned up properly by an NSA person in charge of a hit. This would have yielded a toolkit, but not a target list. This type of malware is rarely re-used and C&C infra is set-up on a hit-by-hit basis so the hypothesis of hitting a C&C server and getting the list from there is even less likely. So if the list is genuine, this means that there is something more interesting involved here.
IMHO, somebody, quite deliberately just gave Harry Reid some extra ammunition for his complaint that FBI is doing one-sided republican election support and not investing enough into investigating Russian hacking ops.
Popcorn please. Let's join that "anonymous" somebody in the gallery to observe the different parts of the USA political spectrum going for each other's throat. As they surely will at this point.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
