NCSC warning on Russian targeting | Professional Security

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : The malicious activity has included: - Targeting, including spear-phishing, of UK parliamentarians from multiple political parties, from at least 2015 to this year; - compromise of UK-US trade documents that were leaked ahead of the December 2019 general election; - The 2018 compromise of the Institute for Statecraft, a UK think-tank whose work included initiatives to defend democracy against disinformation, and the more recent hack of its founder Christopher Donnelly, whose account was compromised from December 2021; in both instances documents were subsequently leaked. - Targeting of universities, journalists, public sector, NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and other civil society groups.

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