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15 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
GRU has been busy. politico.eu/article/france…
"The intrusion campaign started in late 2017 and lasted until 2020, ANSSI said." In other words, from Macron's celebrated denunciation of Putin's election interference campaign in France and straight on through to Macron's failed reset with Moscow.
Also note Sandworm isn’t quite the SVR’s more traditional espionage-only hacker group, responsible for the SolarWinds intrusion. These guys did the Macron hack-and-leak operation and built the NotPetya malware, which did exactly what @JohnHultquist said it would do.
Source is @a_greenberg’s indispensable book, conveniently titled “Sandworm.”
FYI and FWIW: My interview with @JohnHultquist:

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