Russian spies targeting UK MPs and media with ‘cyber interference’
by Rowena Mason Whitehall editor from on (#6GZ9T)
Foreign Office minister tells MPs that FSB is behind sustained effort to interfere in our democratic processes'
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Russian spies have been targeting British MPs, peers, civil servants, journalists and others with cyber-hacking since 2015 as part of a concerted attempt to meddle in British politics, a Foreign Office minister has said.
Leo Docherty, a minister under David Cameron, told the House of Commons that the Russian federal security service was using cyber interference" to target politically connected people.
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