CrowdStrike explained they have been monitoring the activities of Russian hackers from last two years, and they believe Russian Government is behind the Campaign because of the Technical indicators and types of targets chosen.“They are copying the Chinese playbook,” Alperovitch remarked. “Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.”Russian Government have not made any comments yet, over the Spying charges made to them. 

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