Month: August 2026

The officials were the targets of so-called “state-sponsored spearphishing,” the presentation said, a term for state-backed, targeted and bespoke campaigns to get specific people to click on dodgy links or open malicious attachments. Hackers used “social engineering techniques” to trick EU officials, crafting personalized messages that were more likely to get targets to take the […]

Since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin has stepped up efforts to bring privately owned assets — including industrial and defense-related companies — under state control. Around 805 companies were transferred to the state between 2022 and 2026, according to Vadim Yakovenko, head of the Federal Agency for State Property […]