Google: Russian hackers attack NATO and Eastern European armies

Russian hackers recently tried to infiltrate NATO and military networks in several Eastern European countries, according to a report by Google’s threat analysis group released on Wednesday. The report does not specify which armies are involved. Google claims that a group called Coldriver or Callisto, based in Russia, has launched an “identity theft campaign”.

“These campaigns are driven by sending messages from newly created Gmail accounts to non-Google accounts, so the success rate of these campaigns is unknown,” the report said. Russia, which is now under severe Western economic sanctions over its aggression against Ukraine, regularly denies allegations of cyber-attacks.

In 2019, Finnish cybersecurity firm F-Secure Labs described Callisto as an unidentified and advanced actor ” interested in gathering intelligence related to foreign and security policy ” in Europe. The group was also targeted by the NATO Center of Excellence, according to a Google report released Wednesday.

In a statement, NATO did not directly comment on Google’s report, but said: “We see harmful cyber activities on a daily basis.” NATO Centers of Excellence work with the Alliance, but they are not in themselves NATO. We are in contact with them on this issue “, it is said in this statement./tportal.hr