The UK was the first to release the accusations-because time zones, presumably.
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment.
The intrusions include targeting personal email accounts and impersonation attempts against universities and media organizations.
Civil servants and journalists have also been targeted by Russia's Federal Security Service, known as the FSB.The UK added two Russian nationals to its sanctions list for their alleged involvement in Star Blizzard, a cyber group the government says has been targeting UK politicians since at least 2015 and is linked to the FSB's Center 18.
The FSB did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The attackers source key information from social media platforms like LinkedIn and then approach their targets by emailing personal addresses.
After building rapport with the target over time, Callisto sends a malicious link embedded in a PDF document hosted on Google Drive or OneDrive, which takes the target to a phishing site.
The open-source EvilGinx proxy attack framework steals both user credentials and session cookies, [allowing] Callisto to bypass two-factor authentication.
Star Blizzard has evolved to focus on improving its detection evasion capabilities [with] five new Star Blizzard evasive techniques.
We have observed Star Blizzard using two different services, HubSpot and MailerLite to create an email campaign, which provides them with a dedicated subdomain on the service that is then used to create URLs.
Of course they do it, they just don't tell anyone.
That said, the UK spends most of its time spying on Americans, while in return the USA does a lot against the British and they swap information.
Don't worry, there's always China and TikTok.
Pretty much every democracy is susceptible to information warfare.
Dictatorships can ban any information they don't like, hide behind their great firewalls, and simply lock up their opponents.
The thing is, there is a mountain of evidence that Russians have interfered in UK politics over the last decade.
Same all over Europe as far right causes-from Victor Orban in Hungary to AfD in Germany, 5 Star in Italy, Vox in Spain, to National Front in France-are all receiving assistance from Russian sources, all with the goal of destabilising the EU and Western Europe.
Fortunately most Europeans grew up with Russian propaganda and the KGB trying to interfere in everything.
The NRA has been getting Russian money through various channels since the 1990's.
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This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:43:08 +0000