When you have picked your jaw up from the floor after the revelations hackers working for the Russian state are believed to have been trying to steal research into a vaccine that could combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus, it's worth knowing that attempts at interference do not stop there.
Those actions - described as "despicable" by the government - are believed to have targeted, not just UK scientists, but those from Canada and the US as well.
And it's clear, even from the rather technical public statements from security leaders, that the UK government believes the Kremlin itself was involved.
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This is not a group of hackers working out of their parents' garage. The group thought to be responsible - APT29 - is one of those previously linked to hacks on the US Democrats in 2016.
And the UK government is confident the attacks were known about at the highest level of the Russian state.
Ministers also chose today, though, to confirm already widely held suspicions that Russian "actors" separately tried to interfere in the UK election last year.
This accusation is not explicitly against the Russian state, but those shadowy figures who "amplified" leaks of government documents during the 2019 campaign, which were then used by the Labour Party to make claims against the Tories.
'Amplifying actors'
It seems a lifetime ago, but one of Labour's central mantras against Boris Johnson was that the NHS would be "up for sale" in a trade deal with the Americans. You might remember hearing the chant at numerous events - "Not for sale! Not for sale!"
At one of those campaign events, Jeremy Corbyn dramatically unveiled leaked documents that he alleged proved this to be the case.
Labour supporting doctors and nurses wearing scrubs even handed out the reams of paper.
The papers did show that the US wanted access to the NHS, but they did not categorically prove that the Tories would go along with it.
In any case, there was widespread suspicion about where the hundreds of pages had come from, after they had first appeared on the website Reddit.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has not claimed today that Russian influences stole the documents.
But he has accused them of "amplifying" the claims online, condemning these attempts at interfering in the UK's democratic process as "completely unacceptable".
It's important to say too that Labour has also slammed the Russians' apparent role.