Russian Hackers Impersonating as U.S. Department of State to Obtain ASP Passcode

A sophisticated Russian state-sponsored cyber campaign has targeted prominent academics and critics of Russia through an innovative social engineering attack that exploited Google’s Application Specific Password (ASP) functionality. The operation, which ran from April through early June 2025, demonstrated a creative approach to gaining persistent access to victim email accounts by impersonating official U.S. Department […]

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