Russian Espionage Piggybacks on a Cybercriminal's Hacking

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: March 12, 2017 at 11:38:21 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Russian Espionage Piggybacks on a Cybercriminal's Hacking
>
>
> Russian Espionage Piggybacks on a Cybercriminal's Hacking
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/world/europe/russia-hacker-evgeniy-bogachev.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
>
>      But it is clear that for Russia, he is more than just a
>    criminal. At one point, Mr. Bogachev had control over as many
>    as a million computers in multiple countries, with possible
>    access to everything from family vacation photographs and term
>    papers to business proposals and highly confidential personal
>    information. It is almost certain that computers belonging to
>    government officials and contractors in a number of countries
>    were among the infected devices. For Russia's
>    surveillance-obsessed intelligence community, Mr. Bogachev's
>    exploits may have created an irresistible opportunity for
>    espionage.
>
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