Spy vs spy vs spy as Israel watches Russian hackers: NYT

Israeli spies observed Russian government hackers in real time as they scoured computers around the world for the codenames of US intelligence programs, The New York Times reported Tuesday night. The Russian intrusion detected more than two years ago used anti-virus software manufactured by the Russian firm Kaspersky Lab as an ad hoc global search tool, the Times said, quoting current and former government officials. Israeli intelligence had hacked into the Kaspersky network and upon detecting the Russian intrusion, alerted the United States.

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