The Russian hacking group Star Blizzard, accused of interfering in UK politics, is part of an aggressive FSB unit that sought to stoke scandal over Brexit, and hamper European NGOs investigating war crimes in Ukraine. It also stole the leaked UK-US trade documents released before the UK general election in 2019.
Russia’s cyberwar against the west, which accelerated after its 2014 annexation of Crimea, has been executed by a constellation of elite units operated by Russian foreign and military intelligence, as well as by an advanced group called Turla linked to the “16th centre” of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
