Russian hackers used ‘spear-phishing’ to steal information from UK politicians, government says

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The Russian security service has compromised the private conversations of high-profile politicians and civil servants as it tried to interfere in UK political processes, according to the government. The Foreign Office has summoned the Russian ambassador and sanctioned two members of the "Star Blizzard" group, which is believed to be controlled by the Centre 18 unit of the FSB, including an intelligence officer in the Russian security service. MPs, Lords, civil servants, journalists and others have been targeted in attempts to "meddle in British politics", Foreign Office minister Leo Docherty told MPs. There are understood to have been hundreds of...