LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - Russian hackers have recently attempted to penetrate the networks of NATO and the militaries of some eastern European countries, Google's Threat Analysis Group said in a report published on Wednesday.

The report did not say which militaries had been targeted in what Google described as "credential phishing campaigns" launched by a Russian-based group called Coldriver, or Callisto.

"These campaigns were sent using newly created Gmail accounts to non-Google accounts, so the success rate of these campaigns is unknown," the report said.

NATO was not immediately available for comment on the report.

Russia, which is now under heavy Western economic sanctions following its decision to invade Ukraine on Feb. 24, regularly denies accusations of mounting cyber attacks on Western targets.

In 2019, Finnish cybersecurity firm F-Secure Labs described Callisto as an unidentified and advanced threat actor "interested in intelligence gathering related to foreign and security policy" in Europe.

The group also targeted a NATO Centre of Excellence, Wednesday's Google report said, without elaborating.

In a statement, the centre did not directly address Google's report but said: "We see malicious cyber activity on a daily basis."

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-hackers-targeted-nato-eastern-european-militaries-google-2022-03-30/

Russians are always good in cyber warfare, google, Facebook,YouTube et al will her from Russia after this war

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They should go to hell

What have they achieved since then??


Heavy sanctions

The Russians are not playing. What else can I say?

After all the sanctions were telling on all and sundry
From Europe to Africa to Asia, everyone is feeling the heat including Americans

Make all this people just getat

Russia is not Cuba and can't be intimidated by Western sanctions.

Okay...


Bureaucracy cuts down on the swiftness and simplicity of communication in an organization like NATO. True to the portrayal of movies, classified information is systematically guarded. Coldriver wouldn't possibly be dreaming of breaching security either.

This Russia knows, so why would it do it?

Reporting the discovery of a band of private Russian adventurers on cyberspace exploration isn't what Reuters should be proud of.

Gmail to non gmail accounts have high success rate during campaign

Europe should be most careful now

All it takes is one click