CYBERWAR/EU/IRAN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hackers infiltrated the European Union’s diplomatic communications network for years, downloading thousands of cables that reveal concerns about an unpredictable Trump administration and struggles to deal with Russia and China and the risk that Iran would revive its nuclear program. In one cable, European diplomats described a meeting between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Helsinki, Finland, as ‘successful (at least for Putin)’…The techniques that the hackers deployed over a three-year period resembled those long used by an elite unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army. The cables were copied from the secure network and posted to an open internet site that the hackers set up in the course of their attack, according to Area 1, the firm that discovered the breach.”
–David E. Sanger and Steven Erlanger, “Hacked European Cables Reveal a World of Anxiety About Trump, Russia and Iran,” The New York Times online, December 18, 2018