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MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that Russia was responsible for a cyber attack that embedded malicious code inside U.S. government software systems and those of other governments and companies across the world.
The Kremlin has always denied Moscow’s involvement in cyber attacks against the West. It has said that Russia had nothing to do with this latest assault.
Here is some information about Russia’s possible motives for such an attack, and details about Russian cyber offensive and information warfare capabilities.
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Explainer: Russia s potent cyber and information warfare capabilities U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that Russia was responsible for a cyber attack that embedded malicious code inside U.S. government software systems and those of other governments and companies across the world.
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MOSCOW: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that Russia was responsible for a cyber attack that embedded malicious code inside U.S. government software systems and those of other governments and companies across the world.
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Russian President, Vladimir Putin has come out to boast that if Russian special forces had wanted to kill opposition politician Alexey Navalny, they would have “finished it.”
Putin’s boast comes after a damning report by the investigative group Bellingcat and CNN, published Monday, December 14 which uncovered evidence that Russia’s Federal Security Service (the FSB) formed an elite team specializing in nerve agents that trailed Navalny for years.
Navalny, a top Putin critic and Putin’s most powerful opponent, was poisoned with the special grade nerve toxin, Novichok in August and nearly died.
After initial treatment in Omsk, Siberia, he was taken to a clinic in Berlin after the German government specially asked the Kremlin to release him to them.