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May 25, 2022 06:12 pm
Original Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/05/25/1812220/russian-hackers-are-linked-to-new-brexit-leak-website-google-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_med
Russian Hackers Are Linked To New Brexit Leak Website, Google Says
A new website that published leaked emails from several leading proponents of Britain's exit from the European Union is tied to Russian hackers, according to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence. From a report: The website - titled "Very English Coop d'Etat" - says it has published private emails from former British spymaster Richard Dearlove, leading Brexit campaigner Gisela Stuart, pro-Brexit historian Robert Tombs, and other supporters of Britain's divorce from the EU, which was finalized in January 2020. The site contends that they are part of a group of hardline pro-Brexit figures secretly calling the shots in the United Kingdom. "I am well aware of a Russian operation against a Proton account which contained emails to and from me," said Dearlove, referring to the privacy-focused email service ProtonMail.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/05/25/1812220/russian-hackers-are-linked-to-new-brexit-leak-website-google-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_med
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