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Russian Invasion of Ukraine is ‘Almost Certain,' Cyber Expert Says

Putin not bluffing, argues noted cyber and statecraft expert Dmitri Alperovitch, whose Crowdstrike firm uncovered Moscow's 2016 DNC hack

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Jeff Stein
Dec 21, 2021
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Little was understood about the nexus of Russia’s cyber operations and clandestine warfare operations outside cybersecurity circles until 2016, when Dmitri Alperovitch and the company he’d founded, Crowdstrike, traced the hack of the Democratic National Committee to Russian intelligence agencies. That in turn led to the discovery of the full scope of Ru…

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