> APT28 had consistently compiled Russian language settings into their malware. The second was that malware compile times from 2007 to 2014 corresponded to normal business hours in the UTC + 4 time zone, which includes major Russian cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg.

You'd think that a state-sponsored attack would be a little less careless. This seems like a rookie give-away and makes me wonder if this is made to look like Russia instead of being Russia. When I think of a state-sponsored attack, I automatically envision something in the realm of Stuxnet in terms of quality and the level of sophistication.