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UK accuses Kremlin of ordering series of 'reckless' cyber-attacks
Source: The Guardian
UK accuses Kremlin of ordering series of 'reckless' cyber-attacks
Foreign Office blames Russia for six specific attacks, including one on US Democrats
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Thu 4 Oct 2018 00.01 BST
The British government has directly accused Russian military intelligence of being behind a spate of “reckless and indiscriminate cyber-attacks” carried out on the orders of Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, including the hacking in 2016 of the US Democratic National Committee headquarters.
The claim is a precursor to the announcement of further UK intelligence revelations of Russian state involvement in the poisoning in Salisbury of Sergei Skripal, the Russian double agent.
In an unprecedented statement, the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) had found that a number of hackers widely known to have been conducting attacks around the world were covers for the the Russian GRU intelligence service. He added that their attacks had been undertaken with the consent and knowledge of the Kremlin.
The British government claimed the attacks had been conducted “in flagrant violation of international law, had affected citizens in a large number of countries, including Russia, and had cost national economies millions of pounds”.
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Foreign Office blames Russia for six specific attacks, including one on US Democrats
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Thu 4 Oct 2018 00.01 BST
The British government has directly accused Russian military intelligence of being behind a spate of “reckless and indiscriminate cyber-attacks” carried out on the orders of Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, including the hacking in 2016 of the US Democratic National Committee headquarters.
The claim is a precursor to the announcement of further UK intelligence revelations of Russian state involvement in the poisoning in Salisbury of Sergei Skripal, the Russian double agent.
In an unprecedented statement, the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) had found that a number of hackers widely known to have been conducting attacks around the world were covers for the the Russian GRU intelligence service. He added that their attacks had been undertaken with the consent and knowledge of the Kremlin.
The British government claimed the attacks had been conducted “in flagrant violation of international law, had affected citizens in a large number of countries, including Russia, and had cost national economies millions of pounds”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/04/uk-accuses-kremlin-of-ordering-series-of-reckless-cyber-attacks