LIGA reports:
Russian hacking group RomCom attempted to hack into the accounts of employees of the UK Ministry of Defence under the guise of journalists. The attack was unsuccessful, but overall, there have been twice as many hacking attacks on the country’s defence department in the past two years as in the previous similar period, Sky News reports.
As the channel notes, in the specific case of the Russian group RomCom, cybercriminals initially sent two letters to the Ministry of Defense, purporting to be from a news organization with a journalistic request. The letters contained phishing links.
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