{"id":310680,"date":"2017-04-14T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T10:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=310680"},"modified":"2017-04-14T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T10:42:44","slug":"callisto-group-hackers-targeted-foreign-office-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/callisto-group-hackers-targeted-foreign-office-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Callisto Group hackers targeted Foreign Office data"},"content":{"rendered":"
The UK’s Foreign Office was targeted by highly motivated and well-resourced hackers over several months in 2016.<\/p>\n
The BBC understands the government has investigated the previously unreported attack that began in April last year.<\/p>\n
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre would not say whether data was stolen.<\/p>\n
But a source told the BBC that the most sensitive Foreign Office information is not kept on the systems targeted by the hackers.<\/p>\n
Research published on Thursday by cybersecurity firm F-Secure suggested the attack was a “spear-phishing” campaign, in which people were sent targeted emails in attempts to fool them into clicking a rogue link or handing over their username and password.<\/p>\n
To do this, the attackers created a number of web addresses designed to resemble legitimate Foreign Office websites, including those used for accessing webmail.<\/p>\n
F-Secure does not know whether the attack was successful.<\/p>\n
The company says the domains were created by hackers that it calls the Callisto Group, which it says is still active.<\/p>\n