The latest of many attempts to stifle perceived threats to Putin's regime
A pro-democracy NGO in Russia says it looks like the Kremlin-linked COLDRIVER group was behind last month's hack-and-leak job that saw files and inboxes dumped online.last month which highlighted two spearphishing campaigns targeting nonprofits in Russia and Belarus. Preliminary findings cement the suggestion that at least one of these campaigns was orchestrated by COLDRIVER.in a statement.
Citizen Lab said the phishing attacks were highly personalized and often came from compromised accounts at a target organization or from a fake account of a genuine individual known to the victim. The targets of the attack were typically members of NGOs like the Free Russia Foundation. "If successful, such attacks could be enormously harmful, particularly to Russian and Belarusian organizations and independent media, since their email accounts are likely to contain sensitive information about their staff's identities, activities, relationships, and whereabouts," the organization said.
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