Lost in the debate about Russian influence in the U.S. presidential election is the fact Russian hackers have been active for a long time. Littering the illicit pages of the dark web, Russian hacking programs today make possible most of the world’s financial-sector break-ins.
As programmers, Russian-speaking hackers are pioneers in their fields. Increasingly, they have acted with political motivations, but their bread and butter is and has always been theft and corporate espionage.
The Moscow Times recalls Russia’s hacking history since the 1990s, as the Internet economy developed in a country which had the largest engineering community in the world.
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