The US and the UK accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in UK elections and target US energy networks and spies
The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies — LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments …
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Discussion
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@jshield
James Shield
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Love this detail on Russian attempts to hack St Andrews: [image]
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@mikebutcher
Mike Butcher
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“Unsuccessful”? This FSB hack and smear activity dates back to 2015, BEFORE the EU Referendum which led to Brexit — utterly debilitating both the UK and the EU. I'd say that was “successful.”
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@stewartmcdonald
Stewart McDonald MP
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I am glad to see, after many months of work, that this information has been declassified, made public and sanctions are taking place. I want to thank those at parliamentary security, @NCSC, @NCA_UK and @PoliceScotland for all their work and the support they've shown me.
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@itsreallynick
Nick Carr
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Phishing campaigns are just marketing campaigns with different outcomes [image]
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@arekfurt
@arekfurt
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I have to think we're progressively going to see more and more server-side automation from state-level attackers (at least) to frustrate link denonation mechanisms, spot sandbox execution environments, etc. [image]
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@danwblack
Dan Black
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Notable the US-UK trade leaks were confidently linked to COLDRIVER (and by extension, Center 18 of the FSB) in the briefing. Begs the question of whether the FSB is also responsible for Secondary Infektion (the series of forged letters that overlap tactically with the leaks)
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@dmitryopines
Dmitry Grozoubinski
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Putin: “Congratulations Comrade, you have succeeded in plunging the UK government into more chaos than I could have dreamed. Tell me, how did you do it?” FSB agent who spent the last ten years playing Angry Birds on his phone: [image]
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@jimmysecuk
Jimmy Rushton
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This is also long awaited official confirmation that Jeremy Corbyn did use documents stolen by the FSB during the 2019 general election. At the time, he called such claims “nonsense” and “conspiracy theories”, whilst refusing to reveal who had provided them to his campaign. [imag…
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@sixdub
Justin
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence is sharing additional intelligence on Star Blizzard (overlaps Calisto / ColdRiver), who is active in espionage and IO. UK NCSC has just attributed them to FSB Center 18. The blog details ongoing campaigns and evasion https://www.microsoft.com/...
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@eliothiggins
Eliot Higgins
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Details of the various FSB hacks over the last 8 years, including the Institute for Statecraft hack that's continually used by certain people to attack Bellingcat, even though we've never had anything to do with them. https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
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@mike_eckel
Mike Eckel
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👀"Centre 18, a unit within Russia's FSB, has been identified as being accountable for a range of cyber espionage operations targeting the UK." https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
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@gordoncorera
Gordon Corera
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NEW - The Russian Ambassador to the UK has been summoned as Moscow's FSB Security Service is accused of a sustained campaign to interfere in political life by hacking and stealing emails and data from those in public life. UK officials say the campaign has been unsuccessful.
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@msftsecintel
@msftsecintel
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Microsoft continues to track and disrupt activity attributed to a Russian state-sponsored actor we track as Star Blizzard (SEABORGIUM), who has improved their evasion capabilities since 2022 while remaining focused on email credential theft. Get TTPs: https://aka.ms/...
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@gordoncorera
Gordon Corera
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Centre 18, a unit within FSB, identified as being accountable for a range of cyber espionage operations. Also known as Star Blizzard; Callisto Group, SEABORGIUM or COLDRIVER and is operated by FSB officers. One serving FSB officer is being sanctioned by UK.
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@imincorrigible
@imincorrigible
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“The group linked to the FSB - and specifically the part of it known as Centre 18 - has been targeting the UK by stealing information from those in political and public life since at least 2015, it is believed. It is claimed the group remains active” Still no mention of Brexit.
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Russia hacking: ‘FSB in years-long cyber attacks on UK’, says government