Russian hackers had infiltrated the Pentagon, the White House, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State Department, and Russia’s Nashi youth group—either on direct orders from the Kremlin or simply because they were feeling patriotic—knocked the entire nation of Estonia offline after Estonians dared to move a Soviet-era statue. In one cyberattack Russian hackers, posing as Islamic fundamentalists, took a dozen French television channels off the air. They were caught dismantling the safety controls at a Saudi petrochemical company—bringing Russian hackers one step closer to triggering a
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