A high-level intelligence source said the U.S. and its allies have choked off cyber paths that the Russians have allegedly been using to steal emails from high-profile Democrats and other prominent Americans and make them public through WikiLeaks, DCleaks and Guccifer 2.0.
The Russians, both the state actors and their proxies, are some of the most sophisticated cyber actors in the world and so it won’t take them long to find ways of infiltrating and attacking new systems getting access to more data and certainly trying to use it for information, warfare or other purposes.
“I think it’s credible that the U.S. government is doing everything possible to stop the cyber bleeding,” said Juan Zarate, who was a top counterterrorism official from 2005 to 2009.
But, he added, it’s all but certain that the Russians will eventually find work-arounds.
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