The FSB cyberespionage group known as Turla seems to have used its control of Russia's network infrastructure to meddle with web traffic and trick diplomats into infecting their computers.
Microsoft's security research team focused on hacking threats today published a report detailing an insidious new spy technique used by Turla, which is believed to be part of the Kremlin's FSB intelligence agency.
But Microsoft writes in its report that it likely uses the Kremlin's SORM system for ISP- and telecom-based communications interception and surveillance, a decades-old system initially created by the FSB and now widely used in Russian domestic intelligence and law enforcement. Microsoft declined to comment on which countries' embassies in Moscow were targeted in the campaign or how many there were, though DeGrippo notes that Microsoft warned the victims it identified.
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