US Treasury, Justice and State Departments Join the UK in Targeting FSB's Star Blizzard Group

2.6b personal records exposed in breaches over past two years, APT 28 targeted NATO orgs using Outlook zero day, Bluetooth flaw could exploit Android, Linux, macOS and iOS devices, much more

Source: Rewards for Justice

The US joined the UK government in jointly accusing Russian intelligence of orchestrating a wide-ranging, global hacking campaign over the past eight years that targeted British lawmakers, journalists, and civil society organizations in what officials described as a brazen hack-and-leak attempt by the Kremlin to interfere in British elections.

The cyberattacks also allegedly aimed at US energy networks and American spies, among others. The Justice Department unsealed an indictment in California that accuses two Russian nationals, Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko, an officer of the Russian FSB, and Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets, and other unindicted conspirators of waging a sophisticated spear phishing campaign to gain unauthorized, persistent access (i.e., “hack”) in…