On the face of it, this question looks easy to answer. In mid-October Russia’s deputy foreign minister Oleg Syromolotov said Britain has been his country’s enemy “since Ivan the Terrible”, nearly 500 years ago, and Moscow would launch a “severe” response if attacked.
His comments came in response to 5,000 British troops simulating cyber-warfare against the Kremlin, preparing for the possibility of a Russian attack against the West. Tensions have heightened since startling allegations from the UK, US and Netherlands that Russian hackers targeted anti-doping agencies, a US nuclear company, the global chemical weapons watchdog and Fifa. Surely Russia represents the greatest danger?
“Russian espionage, Soviet espionage, has never stopped. It’s deeply embedded in Russia’s DNA” But China is actually responsible for more cyber-attacks worldwide. Researchers at CrowdStrike, which provides…