Reuters – OAKLAND (Reuters) – In recent weeks, Google (GOOGL.O), a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL.O), has observed Russian hackers, notably FancyBear, engaging in espionage, phishing operations, and other assaults targeting Ukraine and its European allies.
In a blog post on Monday, Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which focuses on disrupting computer hackers and notifying people about them, reported that Russian hacking team FancyBear, also known as APT28, has been sending phishing emails to Ukrainian media business UkrNet for the last two weeks.
Russia denies deploying hackers to track out its adversaries. Phishing communications are designed to collect user account login information so that hackers may get access to a target’s computers and internet accounts.
Google declined to comment on whether any of the attacks were successful.
Ghostwriter/UNC1151, defined by Google as a Belarusian threat actor, has been phishing Polish and Ukrainian government and military institutions in an attempt to gain account credentials.