U.S. policymakers should reassess their assumptions about Russia’s cyber capabilities to include its murky cybercrime ecosystem that doesn’t always have clear ties to Kremlin intelligence agencies, a new paper argues. The Atlantic Council report released Tuesday stresses that Russia still poses a major threat to the U.S. in cyberspace, but its cyber operations are less centralized and coordinated than previously assumed. A fragmented mix of government agencies, criminal groups and loosely affiliated hackers may undermine the idea that Russian cyber operations are centrally directed or strategically cohesive, argues Justin Sherman, the report’s author.
US should rethink current views of Russia’s cyber might, new report says – Nextgov/FCW
