Five Eyes nations warn of evolving Russian cyberespionage practices targeting cloud environments

[rbc]

Longstanding cyberespionage and data collection units tied to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) are evolving their techniques to gain access to cloud environments, the British, U.S. and partner governments said in an advisory Monday.

The advisory — issued by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre and co-signed by a range of counterpart agencies in the U.S., Australia, Canada and New Zealand — details the evolving tactics, techniques and procedures that SVR hacking operations, tracked widely under the “APT29” and “Cozy Bear” monikers, are employing to penetrate the increasing number of cloud environments used by both private and public organizations.
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Five Eyes nations warn of evolving Russian cyberespionage practices targeting cloud environments