How Democracy, in the Kremlin’s Crosshairs, Can Fight Back
Russian Cyber Meddling Turns Free Speech and Technology Against Open Societies
The most dramatic development of France’s recent Presidential election was last Friday’s announcement by the Emmanuel Macron campaign that their email and account records had been the target of a massive hacking operation by foreign intelligence operatives. According to reports released in the week leading up to the election, responsibility for the attack lies with the same group that has been implicated in the hacking of the DNC servers, namely the Russian intelligence service APT28, otherwise known as “Fancy Bear.”
By now, the Kremlin’s methods are becoming familiar: infiltrating email …
