The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed as “groundless” warnings from Britain and the United States that Russian state-sponsored hackers were threatening their crucial computer networks. “We don’t know what these new accusations are based on,” said President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “As before, neither our American nor our British colleagues have bothered to search for arguments, even weak ones,” he said.
Peskov added the claims were “groundless” and “unjustified”. Washington and london said in a joint statement that Russia’s hacking operation aimed “to support espionage, extract intellectual property, maintain persistent access to victim networks and potentially lay a foundation for future offensive operations”.