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Cyber-statecraft has certain traditions. One is; Ellen Nakashima from WaPo reports the story first. On 9th Dec, "according to people familiar with the matter," she broke that cyber-security giant #FireEye had been hacked to bits by #CozyBear. "Imagine my surprise."
The CEO of FireEye (& Mandiant) is cy-biz super-star Kevin Mandia -- a pioneer in awarding 'Advanced Persistent Threat' status to 'nation-state' gangs. As my book shows he was key in making cyber-statecraft the greatest tool of diplomacy since the gunboat. amazon.com/dp/B08MSZHMGP
In cyber-statecraft, the normal nuanced judgments of an attribution are guided (& funded) by the USG to foreign policy approved conclusions. The USG turned to Mandia to make Pandas into #APT1, Kim Jong-un into Sony's Hacker, #Fancy into APT28 & #Cozy into APT29.
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