https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html
By David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth
The New York Times
June 15, 2019
WASHINGTON -- The United States is stepping up digital incursions into
Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin
and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new
authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former
government officials said.
In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the
previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s
grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly
discussed action directed at Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units
around the 2018 midterm elections.
Advocates of the more aggressive strategy said it was long overdue, after
years of public warnings from the Department of Homeland Security and the
F.B.I. that Russia has inserted malware that could sabotage American power
plants, oil and gas pipelines, or water supplies in any future conflict
with the United States.
But it also carries significant risk of escalating the daily digital Cold
War between Washington and Moscow.
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