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• Russian Star Blizzard hackers linked to efforts to hamper war crimes investigation

  07-12-2023 20:32
  Group ‘harvesting sensitive material’ via social media part of FSB unit leaking data to serve KremlinThe Russian hacking group Star Blizzard, accused of interfering in UK politics, is part of an aggressive FSB unit that sought to stoke scandal over Brexit, and hamper European NGOs investigating war crimes in Ukraine. It also stole the leaked UK-US trade documents released before the UK general election in 2019.Russia’s cyberwar against the west, which accelerated after its 2014
  
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• Russian spies targeting UK MPs and media with ‘cyber interference’

  07-12-2023 13:43
  Foreign Office minister tells MPs that FSB is ‘behind sustained effort to interfere in our democratic processes’• UK politics live – latest updatesRussian spies have been targeting British MPs, peers, civil servants, journalists and others with cyber-hacking since 2015 as part of a concerted attempt to meddle in British politics, a Foreign Office minister has said.Leo Docherty, a minister under David Cameron, told the House of Commons that the Russian federal security serv
  
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