This is linked directly to crowdstrike?
Dmitri Alperovitch is a computer security industry executive. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike. In August 2011, as vice president of threat research at McAfee, he published Operation Shady RAT, a report on suspected Chinese intrusions into at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Alperovitch
This was a two-fer for Dmitri. As a Ukrainian, he’s no fan of Putin. Blaming Russia for the hack allowed the DNC to avoid the shame of their own head of IT ‘hacking’ them, but also avoid questions about how Seth died.