Re: This is not the 'first battle in the new age of cyber warfare'
Those were just a stupid DOS.
This is different, actively manipulating the public opinion through selective disclosure, financing unaligned (to Russian position) extremists in multi-move combinations, actively destablizing major powers, etc. Doing it correctly, intelligently and with minimal resource waste.
The Russians have not done this since the 1960-es - when Putin's mentor in KGB ran their foreign operations.