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Microsoft has revealed that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is using local internet providers to launch malware attacks on foreign embassies in Moscow, in a targeted cyber espionage campaign.
The tech company said on Thursday that its threat intelligence unit has confirmed the campaign is being carried out within Russian borders, marking the first public confirmation that Moscow is running cyber operations at the internet service provider (ISP) level.
“Microsoft is now certain that this activity is happening within Russian borders,” said Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft's director of Threat Intelligence Strategy, in comments to Reuters.
The attacks were reportedly carried out in February and involved the installation of custom backdoors on embassy systems. These backdoors allow further malware to be deployed and data to be stolen, Microsoft said. The company did not identify which embassies were targeted.
The campaign is linked to a long-standing Russian cyber unit Microsoft calls "Secret Blizzard", also known in other cybersecurity circles as “Turla.” The U.S. government has previously identified the group as an FSB-controlled unit active in global espionage campaigns for nearly two decades.
In 2023, the FBI disrupted one of Turla’s operations that had reportedly targeted governments and journalists.
Microsoft’s disclosure comes at a sensitive moment in geopolitical tensions, with Washington calling on Moscow to support a ceasefire in Ukraine and NATO allies pledging greater defence spending to deter Russian threats.
The U.S. State Department has not commented on the findings. Russian officials have also not responded but have consistently denied involvement in cyber espionage.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
The war in Ukraine has reached a strategic impasse, and it seems that the conflict will not be solved by military means. This creates a path toward one of two alternatives: either a “frozen” phase that can last indefinitely or a quest for a durable political regulation.
A shooting in Nice, southeastern France, left two people dead and five injured on Friday, authorities said.
Snapchat will start charging users who store more than 5GB of photos and videos in its Memories feature, prompting backlash from long-time users.
President Donald Trump rejected a request from leading Democratic lawmakers to meet until the three-week-old U.S. government shutdown is brought to an end on Tuesday.
A Colombian court has overturned former President Álvaro Uribe’s convictions for fraud and bribery, halting a years-long legal saga that had made him the country’s first ex-leader to face criminal sentencing.
A Jan. 6 rioter who was pardoned by President Donald Trump has been charged with making terroristic threats after allegedly sending text messages that threatened to kill House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, according to a felony complaint filed in New York state court.
Netflix (NFLX) missed Wall Street third-quarter earnings targets due to an unexpected expense from a dispute with Brazilian tax authorities, though it offered a slightly stronger-than-expected forecast for the rest of the year.
Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia have strengthened their strategic economic partnership with new projects in the capital’s development plan, including the construction of the ‘Riyadh Quarter’ in New Tashkent and the launch of a new international airport.
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