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Russian government spies targeted Ukraine using tools developed by cybercriminals | TechCrunch

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Microsoft published a report detailing a hacking campaign carried out by a group it calls Secret Blizzard .

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency previously said Secret Blizzard is almost certainly subordinate to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Centre 18 .

Microsoft researchers wrote in the report, shared with TechCrunch ahead of publication, that Secret Blizzard used a botnet known as Amadey to try to break into “devices associated with the Ukrainian military”.