
Whenever an Internet user gets online to visit a website or send an email, the user’s device sends a query through the Domain Name System. The data at issue refers to communications traversing the Domain Name System (DNS), a global database that maps computer-friendly coordinates like Internet addresses (e.g., 8.8.8.8) to more human-friendly domain names (). Rather, it claims that the data they found was the result of a “highly sophisticated cyberattacks against it in 20” intended “to fabricate apparent communications” between Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization.

That report is now public, ironically thanks to a pair of lawsuits filed by Alfa Bank, which doesn’t directly dispute the information collected by the researchers. Senate Armed Services Committee on data that prompted those experts to seek out the FBI has been limited to a handful of Senate committee leaders, Alfa Bank, and special prosecutors appointed to look into the origins of the FBI investigation on alleged ties between Trump and Russia.

Since 2018, access to an exhaustive report commissioned by the U.S.

The first page of Alfa Bank’s 2020 complaint.
