By Microsoft Security
It’s been over a year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. Since that day, Russia has attempted to overrun Ukrainian defenses with a combination of hybrid warfare tactics, including cyber weapons, influence operations, and military force. And while Russia’s military has wrought immense physical devastation in Ukraine, it has fallen short of achieving all its objectives due to the limitations of Moscow’s parallel cyber and influence operations.
As of early 2023, Russian threat actors had expanded the scope of their war-related espionage operations. Between January and mid-February 2023, Microsoft threat intelligence analysts found indications of Russian threat activity against organizations in at least 17 European nations, targeting primarily the government sector. While these actions are most likely intended to boost intelligence collection against organizations providing political and material support to Ukraine, they could also, if directed, inform destructive operations.
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