Russian spies impersonating Western researchers in ongoing hacking campaign

Hackers working for Russia’s intelligence services are impersonating researchers and academics in an ongoing campaign to gain access to their colleagues’ email accounts, according to messages and files seen by Recorded Future News and independently analyzed by two cybersecurity companies. Keir Giles, the British author of “Russia's War on Everybody” and a consulting fellow at

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