The same Russian intelligence hackers who attacked the Democratic National Committee and stole thousands of internal emails used computer malware to penetrate the Android cell phone of a Ukrainian military officer, enabling the Russian military to target and destroy Ukrainian artillery forces in that country, according to a new report released Thursday by a top cybersecurity firm. The report is by CrowdStrike, the firm that was hired by the DNC last spring and first linked the hack of the committee?s computers to Russian hackers it called ?Fancy Bear.? Its new analysis further strengthens the case that these same Fancy Bear hackers are closely tied to the Russian military, said Dmitri Alperovitch, chief technology officer and co-founder of CrowdStrike.



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