Russian hackers have been observed impersonating a major German political party in an attempt to infect other political subjects in the country with malware capable of stealing sensitive information, and more.
Cybersecurity researchers from Mandiant reported detetcing a copy of a phishing email sent from a Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29, which has previously been linked with Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and attributed to some of the bigger cyberattacks in recent years, including the disastrous SolarWinds attack from 2020.
