Russia under the regime of Vladimir Putin is a rogue state but not an especially capable one. That's the ineluctable conclusion to be drawn from the attempts of Russian spies to target the cyber operations of the Foreign Office, the Porton Down research facility and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
These bungled operations were exposed today by British and Dutch authorities. The threat from Russian aggression in various forms is intense, but the methods of deterrence and containment that worked to defeat communism in the Cold War have not lost their relevance in the age of cyber warfare.
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