Russia’s Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor
Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a back door on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft.
The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations associated with Ukraine, have affected over 100 organizations since January, mainly in the U.S. and U.K. At least one computer was infected, but the number of breached organizations has not been revealed.
Security agencies in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand stated in December 2023 that Star Blizzard is almost certainly operating under Center 18 of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). The group has been stealing email passwords by posing as people its targets know.
By 2023, it used fake meeting and conference invites as lures to lure ...