Spy chief denies Russia was behind hack of US firm SolarWinds | South China Morning Post

Russia's spy chief on Tuesday denied responsibility for the SolarWinds cyberattack but said he was "flattered" by the accusations from the United States and Britain that Moscow's foreign intelligence was behind such a sophisticated hack. Washington and London have blamed Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), successor to the foreign spying operations of the KGB, for the hack which compromised nine US federal agencies and hundreds of private sector companies. "These claims are like a bad detective novel," SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin, a close ally of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin , told the BBC in Russian. Asked directly if the SVR…