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The US Department of Justice and Microsoft have seized 107 websites used by Russian cyberspies in a phishing campaign to steal sensitive information from US government agencies, think tanks, and other victims.
Court orders targeted domains belonging to Russia's Callisto Group , a hacking unit of the Russian Federal Security Service that has been attacking defense, intelligence, political orgs, and academia "The Russian government ran this scheme to steal Americans' sensitive information, using seemingly legitimate email accounts to trick victims into revealing account credentials," US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement today announcing the FSB infrastructure disruption.
Targeted victims “thus far” included US-based companies, former intelligence community employees, former and current Department of Defense and Department of State employees, United States military defense contractors, and staff at the Department of Energy.of a massive, two-year espionage campaign during which Callisto hackers had been stealing user credentials and 2FA tokens from victims in the US and Europe.
"While we expect Star Blizzard to always be establishing new infrastructure, today's action impacts their operations at a critical point in time when foreign interference in US democratic processes is of utmost concern," Microsoft said in announcing the civil action."It will also enable us to quickly disrupt any new infrastructure we identify through an existing court proceeding.
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