we've been reporting extensively on Russian hacking in the presidential campaign and last night we showed you how Russian hackers shut down part of Ukraine's power grid well now David Martin reports the hacking has led to death on the battlefield locked in a bitter battle with Russian backed separatists a ukrainian artillery officer devised a cell phone app that allowed his men to aim and shoot their howitzers in seconds rather than minutes but after they showed it off on youtube says Adam Meyers of the computer security firm CrowdStrike Russian military intelligence hacked into the back door provided them full access to the device every number that was in there even the geographic location so that malware basically turned the phone into a beacon that's right and that beacon was used to target Ukrainian military units as a result of this hack attack people were actually getting killed the data seems to point to for sure this is what the malware looks like and it's got digital fingerprints all over it including this IP address and what does that internet address tell you that's actually a server that we've previously associated with the fancy Bayer actor fancy Bayer is the name given to the group which also hacked into the email of the Democratic National Committee fancy Bayer is known to work for Russian military intelligence sounds like Russian military intelligence is just having a field day they're really good at what they do and there they're doing it pretty much all day every day only in this case Scott the cyber attack was not just disruptive it was deadly David Martin at the Pentagon David thank you