Russian spycraft: How the Kremlin hacked its way into a crisis

Last Friday the U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) publicly named the Russian government for directing “the recent compromises of emails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations.”

It claimed that the disclosures of hacked emails “on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process”, while “only Russia’s most senior officials could have authorized these activities.”