The Democratic National Committee’s decision to reveal the compromise of its network by Russian hackers is providing a rare and surprisingly fresh postmortem of an advanced, apparently state-sponsored hack attack. Organizations do not usually give computer investigators the green light to talk about an intrusion. But the DNC allowed incident-response firm Crowdstrike to talk publicly about the attacks. Crowdstrike has a “high level” of confidence that group is connected with Russia’s GRU, the country’s military intelligence unit, CTO Dmitri Alperovitch says.”]
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