The Russian expert assessed the threat of the United States to launch “offensive cyber operations” against “Russian hackers”

From ehackingnews.com

“If the United States does carry out an “offensive operation”, Russia will be able to both prevent it and respond symmetrically,” said military expert Viktor Murakhovsky, commenting on reports about the US president’s plans to instruct the US military to prepare “offensive cyber operations” against hackers based in Russia

“The US doctrinal documents say that in response to hacker attacks, they can use not only cyber weapons but also military means. However, I have little faith that the Americans, in response to an attack, would risk striking Russian territory with conventional weapons. Instead, they can carry out attacks on public networks and on local networks of Russian organizations,” said Viktor Murakhovsky, a member of the expert council of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation.

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