The Russian GRU and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in 2017-2020 gained access to the internal systems of a number of government agencies and large companies.
Russian intelligence agencies, thanks to a large-scale campaign of cyber espionage, have been collecting inside information about the Georgian government and large companies in the country for years. Bloomberg reported this.
It was noted that the Russian GRU and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in 2017-2020 gained access to the internal systems of a number of government agencies and large companies.
In particular, on the eve of the parliamentary elections in 2020, the GRU hacked the Central Election Commission of Georgia, several large Georgian media, including the country’s most popular TV channels Imedi and Maestro, as well as several IT systems of Georgian national railways. company.
In addition, hackers linked to the FSB conducted a covert operation inside the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to gain access to the emails of Georgian officials and collect data stored in Georgian embassies in whole world
The hackers likely belong to a Russian group known as Turla. They also tried to gain access to the data of seven Georgia officials. We are talking about the current deputy head of the Georgian Foreign Ministry and the Georgian ambassadors of Georgia to the USA and the EU.
We remind you that the German counterintelligence accused the Russian GRU of cyber attacks on NATO and the EU.
It has also been reported that the US, UK and Australia have announced sanctions against individuals and entities linked to the Russian cybercriminal group Evil Corp.
Source: korrespondent
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