Israeli Intelligence Alerted U.S. to Russian Hackers

(Washington Post) Ellen Nakashima - In 2015, Israeli spies found hacking tools on the computers of the Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm that could only have come from the U.S. National Security Agency. Israel notified the NSA, where alarmed officials immediately began a hunt for the breach. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security instructed federal civilian agencies to identify Kaspersky Lab software on their networks and remove it.


2017-10-11 00:00:00

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