Russia’s Nation-State Hackers: A Serious Threat To Global Security [extract]
Russia’s Nation-State Hackers: A Serious Threat To Global Security
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has increased and renewed the interest in information warfare, with the widespread dissemination of propaganda and misinformation on global social media. Russia has LONG been employing hackers as a method of propaganda, theft and attack.
Russian-language criminals operating ransomware as a service continue to be responsible for most high profile cyber crime attacks against the US, UK, EU as well as Ukraine.
The US National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and co-authoring agencies warn that Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) cyber actors are exploiting a publicly known vulnerability to compromise victims globally, including in the United States and in allied countries. Some of these high profile Russian-language groups are known to have links with the Russian state government.
This activity also came from a large-scale Russian propaganda campaign on social media, especially in countries that abstained from voting on the United Nations Resolution ES-11/1 such as India, South Africa, and Pakistan. Russian state hackers are increasingly attempting to deploy backdoors on the devices of targets in NATO countries and Ukraine, according to new research from Google’s Threat Analysis Group.
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