Russia's intelligence services have targeted high-profile British politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyberespionage as part of years-long attempts to interfere in U.K. politics, Britain's government said Thursday.
Foreign Office minister Leo Docherty told lawmakers that a cybergroup called Star Blizzard also known as Callisto Group or COLDRIVER, and which U.K. cybersecurity officials believe to be almost certainly subordinate to an FSB unit created false identities to impersonate legitimate contacts and then delivered a malicious link to victims.
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