How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring The World For U.s. Secrets

NICOLE PERLROTH and SCOTT SHANE, NY Times: Politics
Tue, 10/10/2017 - 3:23pm

Exploiting the popular Kaspersky antivirus software, Russian hackers searched millions of computers for American intelligence keywords. Israeli intelligence tipped off American officials.

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