In the News Hacking collective DarkSide are state-sanctioned pirates
by
Bryson Bort
May 11, 2021
originally published in
Quartz
“We know that there’s a tacit approval here that these folks are allowed to operate with relative impunity,” said Bryson Bort, a senior fellow studying cybersecurity and emerging threats at the think tank The R Street Institute. “The real question we’re all wondering is, is there more than tacit acceptance by the Russian government?”
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