The Russian state hacker group known as Turla has carried out some of the most innovative hacking feats in the history of cyberespionage, hiding their malware’s communications in satellite connections or hijacking other hackers’ operations to cloak their own data extraction. When they’re operating on their home turf, however, it turns out they’ve tried an equally remarkable, if more straightforward, approach: They appear to have used their control of Russia’s internet service providers to directly plant spyware on the computers of their targets in Moscow.
Microsoft’s security research team focused on hacking threats today published a report detailing an insidious new spy technique used by Turla,