US busts Russian cyber operation in dozens of countries

The specific targets were not named in court papers, but US officials described the espionage campaign as “consequential”.

(Dominic Lipinski/PA)

The US Justice Department says it has disrupted a long-running Russian cyber espionage campaign that stole sensitive information from computer networks in dozens of countries, including Nato members.

Prosecutors linked the spying operation to a unit of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, and accused the hackers of stealing documents from hundreds of computer systems belonging to governments of Nato members, an unidentified journalist for a US news organisation who reported on Russia, and other targets of interest to the Kremlin.