Suspected Russian hack: Was it an epic cyber attack or spy operation?
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The Russians are way better at this than we even knew about.”Jamil Jaffer, former senior counsel to the House Intelligence Committee and a vice president at IronNet Security, noted that “we have no evidence yet that any information has been deleted, destroyed, manipulated or modified, leading me to believe that this is an intelligence collection operation.” It’s alarming but not surprising, for example, that the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration was among those agencies breached—its unclassified business networks were hacked, according to the agency.“If we could access Russia or China’s nuclear programs and information, we would,” he said.American officials should be careful how they describe this incident, said one senior Congressional official who oversees intelligence. Then again, he and others noted, that wouldn’t be much different from what officials say the Russians have already done by positioning cyber weapons on parts of the American power grid, or by stationing nuclear weapons-equipped submarines off the U.S. coast.The Russian SVR, which is believed to have carried out the hacks, has no history of manipulating or destroying data – they are a spying outfit, the congressional official said.
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