The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday announced the seizure of more than 100 web domains that a Russian intelligence agency allegedly used to try to hack current and former US officials, civil-society groups and Russians living in the US.
The sweeping hacking campaign sought to gather intelligence on US and allied efforts to support Ukraine, and to infiltrate and undermine pro-democracy and human rights organizations in the US, United Kingdom and Eastern Europe, according to US officials and private experts. It’s the latest in a series of moves from the Justice Department to expose alleged covert Russian operations targeting US democracy in the runup to the 2024 presidential election.
The UK government last year accused the same Russian hacking group of conducting a “sustained unsuccessful attempts to interfere in UK political processes” over several years that hacked politicians, civil servants and journalists. The hackers operate on behalf of Russia’s FSB intelligence agency, the prime successor to the Soviet-era KGB, according to US officials. The FSB has a broad mandate to use its extensive hacking capabilities to surveil dissidents at home and abroad.
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