Security News > 2022 > May > Ex-spymaster and fellow Brexiteers' emails leaked by suspected Russian op

Emails between leading pro-Brexit figures in the UK have seemingly been stolen and leaked online by what could be a Kremlin cyberespionage team.

The emails were uploaded to a.co.uk website titled "Very English Coop d'Etat," Reuters first reported this week.

"I am well aware of a Russian operation against a Proton account which contained emails to and from me," he said.

Cold River has sent links to phishing websites in emails as well as PDFs and documents from Google Drive or Microsoft One Drive accounts, we're told.

"Government-backed actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, as well as various unattributed groups, have used various Ukraine war-related themes in an effort to get targets to open malicious emails or click malicious links. Financially motivated and criminal actors are also using current events as a means for targeting users," TAG said in a blog post this month.

If the leaked emails - available all together in a 33MB Zip archive - are authentic, it's the second time Russian spies are believed to have stolen documents and leaked emails from leading British officials, according to Reuters.

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