#RUSSIAN COLLECTION MAGAZINE UPDATE#

Since the start of the year, it has targeted over 30 organizations: mainly defense and intelligence consulting companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), think tanks, and higher education. “Seaborgium has successfully compromised organizations and people of interest in consistent campaigns for several years, rarely changing methodologies or tactics.” “Once successful, it slowly infiltrates targeted organizations’ social networks through constant impersonation, rapport building, and phishing to deepen their intrusion,” said Microsoft.

#RUSSIAN COLLECTION MAGAZINE UPDATE#

In an update on August 15, the tech giant said it had disabled accounts used by the 'Seaborgium' group for reconnaissance, phishing, and email collection, and updated detections against its phishing domains in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen.Īlso known by threat researchers as Callisto Group, ColdRiver, TA446 and other monikers, Seaborgium is a “highly persistent threat actor” that focuses most of its time on the US and UK, and occasionally the countries of the Baltics, Nordics and Eastern Europe. Microsoft claims to have disrupted a prolific Russian state-backed threat group known for conducting long-running cyber-espionage campaigns against mainly NATO countries.

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