U.S., UK Sanction Russian APT Members

The U.S. and UK governments are cracking down on a known Russian threat group with sanctions, as well as the release of a series of reports exposing the group's tactics used in recent spear-phishing attacks against individuals in the U.S. government and Defense Industrial Base, UK parliamentarians and more.

The known threat group has been tracked over the years by researchers as Seaborgium, Star Blizzard and BlueCharlie. While the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) previously warned of spear-phishing campaigns …

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