Cyberspace looks set to be a battleground in the renewed Cold War between Moscow and Washington after the Kremlin pledged to respond to what it called unprecedented US threats over alleged Russian hacking.
Joe Biden, US vice-president, said that a message would be sent to President Putin over Moscow’s suspected involvement in leaking emails to and from top Democratic Party officials before the US presidential election.
“The message will be sent. He’ll know it, and it will be at the time of our choosing and under the circumstances that have the greatest impact,” Mr Biden told NBC News in an interview broadcast on Friday.
NBC News cited unnamed US officials as saying that the CIA was planning an operation to embarrass Moscow over the alleged
