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Your summary is also ambiguous. Were they hacked by the Russian CIA equivalent? Were they hacked by people funded by the Russian government? Were they hacked by
by wrsh07 3y ago
Your summary is also ambiguous. Were they hacked by the Russian CIA equivalent? Were they hacked by people funded by the Russian government? Were they hacked by people funded by senior government officials?
I think it's possible that the truth is a little murky, and capturing that ambiguity is actually clearer than trying to wave it away
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago> The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Polish Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW), CERT Polska (CERT.PL), and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) assess Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) cyber actors—also known as Advanced Persistent Threat 29 (APT 29), the Dukes, CozyBear, and NOBELIUM/Midnight Blizzard https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cyber-threats-and-advisories/advanced-persistent-threats/russia https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cyber-threats-and-advisories/adv... So, they're "Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) cyber actors"
- Morte42 3y agoIm guessing that's like saying they are hired by the Russian equivalent of the CIA and following direct orders from top Russian officials?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoWhile the CIA is a US foreign intelligence agency, I'd hesitate to call them equivalent. Hired by as in, employees of, Russian intelligence? Unless my link is inaccurate, yes.