A federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for a massive operation intended to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election. US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has accused the defendants of posing as Americans to sway election results. The Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization, and the 13 actors reportedly began targeting the United States back in 2014. Mueller’s indictment claims they “had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system” The first time the DoJ has indicted nation-state threat actors was in 2014, when five members of the Chinese military for allegedly hacking major American manufacturing companies.”]