When a mysterious group calling itself the Shadow Brokers earlier this year posted online a collection of NSA hacking tools, some intelligence experts believed Russia was trying to send the U.S. a message: We have the goods on your secret operations and will expose them if needed.
To hurt Russia where it counts, the Obama administration could do something similar.
American counterintelligence officials have recently renewed their focus on Russian spies, and the CIA might be able to acquire and publish a cache of Kremlin tools. The files would show how Russian hackers cracked into networks, including which code flaws they exploited, effectively neutering the potency of those attacks.
The Obama administration took a similar, albeit public, step Thursday when it published forensic data on Russian hackers that companies can plug into their monitoring software to scan for Moscow-linked intrusions.
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