It was the keyboards that gave them away. Russian hackers, typing on keyboards configured in Cyrillic and doing it in a time zone consistent with Moscow, created the “eloquent” code that breached the computers of the Democratic National Committee , according to a top analyst who investigated the hack.
“When we looked at the malware, we found that it was very, very eloquent in its design as well as its functionality — very advanced, not something that script user or lower level hacker would be able to really generate or customize,” he said.
Buratowski’s firm was one of three independent cybersecurity firms brought in by another firm, Crowdstrike, to analyze parts of malware that infected computers belonging to the Democratic National Committee. Last month Crowdstrike, which was first to analyze the attack, fingered two Russian hacker groups that the firm said were working for two rival Russian intelligence agencies.
Crowdstrike has already tied one of the hacking teams to a series of attacks on unclassified U.S. government networks last year.
“This shows you espionage has now moved off the just physical realm of recruiting spies and getting information. It’s now through cyber means,”
Dmitri Alperovitch, a co-founder of Crowdstrike, told ABC News in June.
Presidential candidates and campaigns have been “a traditional target of Russian intelligence for 100 years, but now [Russia is] doing it for cyber," he said.
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