You say that you've never heard of Yonder?
Yonder used to have a different name.
It was New Knowledge.

Have you ever heard of Academi? They used to be called Xe Services in 2009.
Before that they were called Blackwater.
Now why do you think they changed their name?

New Knowledge got semi-famous when they were commissioned by the U.S. Senate to give a report on Russian election interference.

Broadly, Russian interference in the U.S. Presidential Election of 2016 took three distinct forms, one of which is within the scope of our analysis:

1. Attempts to hack online voting systems (as detailed by a United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report)
2. A cyber-attack targeting the Democratic National Committee, executed by the GRU, which led to a controlled leak via Wikileaks of email data related to the Clinton Presidential campaign team
3. A sweeping and sustained social influence operation consisting of various coordinated disinformation tactics aimed directly at US citizens, designed to exert political influence and exacerbate social divisions in US culture

This last form of interference, a multi-year coordinated disinformation effort conducted by the Russian state-supported Internet Research Agency (IRA), is the topic of this analysis.

There's just one teeny problem with this report - everything.
Let's start with #2.

The transcript was from an interview conducted with CrowdStrike's president of services and chief security officer Shawn Henry by the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in December 2017, but only released to the US Special Counsel Robert Mueller who conducted a two-year inquiry into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential poll.

While the exfiltration of emails from the DNC server has been accepted as a proven fact, Henry's answers to queries from committee members make it clear that this was definitely not the case.

In one typical exchange, Henry was asked, "What about the emails that everyone is so, you know, knowledgeable of? Were there also indicators that they were prepared but not evidence that they actually were exfiltrated?"
To this Henry responded, "There's not evidence that they were actually exfiltrated. There's circumstantial evidence - but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated."

Which means the Senate report was a lie and Crowdstrike knew it.

As for #3, do you want to hear the most hilariously pathetic, nonsensical excuse of all time?

They were accused of waging information warfare and trying to defraud the United States — but in a court filing late Monday, the Justice Department accused them of taking advantage of the protections granted in the American legal system but refusing to honor its obligations.

"Concord has been eager and aggressive in using the judicial system to gather information about how the United States detects and prevents foreign election interference," the department said in its filing.

"The United States will not permit Concord to continue to garner the benefits of its appearance while evading other consequences thereof."

What does that even mean?
Forcing the Justice Department to prove their case in court would be taking advantage of the the American legal system? Really?
How convenient.

New Knowledge/Yonder isn't done with Scary Russia.
The FBI and DHS released a report recently literally titled “Possible Russian Tactics Ahead of 2020 US Election”.
Emphasis on Possible.

This appears to be based on a report by the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) from October 2019...Things become a lot clearer when one looks into who is involved with SIO – namely one Renee DiResta, who proudly boasts of past work advising the Senate Intelligence Committee and working at New Knowledge.