Obama team expected to announce measures to punish Russia for election hacking

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I think this was a little clearer for laying things out as a narrative:

How Russia trolled the USA

So there was CloudStrike’s initial forensic analysis of the DNC systems that were infected with malware. After that discovery, an account named Guccifer 2.0 appeared and claimed to be an independent Romanian hacker who was responsible. CloudStrike’s forensic analysis is available, and the evidence in it is damning. It makes a strong case from the forensics that there were two separate groups independently going after the DNC, one with all the hallmarks of previous GRU-attributed attacks, the …

Since then CloudStrike found the same malware and keys used in the DNC attack were used in attacks by the GRU against Ukrainians in the Russian-Ukranian war/invasion. In that case they infected systems that were used by Ukrainian artillery units where Russia targeted infected systems with their own strikes to take out >90% of the Ukrainian units. It’s really, really hard to explain how the same malware/C&C IPs/keys could end up on the DNC servers in 2016, the Bundestag hack in 2015 (collecting intel on the German parliament), and a Russian military target in 2014 by non-state “hacktivists” or how any other state level org. could and would managed to be engaged in that sophisticated and long of a game that serves only the interests of one state: Russia. Today Trump announced plans to drop the sanctions Obama had levied in response to the Ukraine invasion and continuing occupation of Crimea. Putin won.