Bear hunt
The intrusion is one of the largest cyber-espionage campaigns ever seen
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N SEPTEMBER 25TH Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, warned that a “large-scale confrontation in the digital sphere” was looming. He offered a solution. Russia and America would “exchange guarantees of non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, including electoral processes, including using
ICT”—in short, a cyber-truce. Even as he spoke, his hackers were apparently deep inside some of America’s most sensitive networks.
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American officials claim that a group of hackers known as
APT29, or more evocatively as Cozy Bear, thought to be part of the