BucharestRussian state-linked hackers targeted Romania’s NATO and EU emails.
Romania’s intelligence service says it stopped the attack and found no sensitive data stolen.
ESET says the previously unknown Cereal toolkit let the group monitor and collect messages on compromised Microsoft Exchange servers.
The agency did not name the targeted institution or say how the hackers first got in.
Romanian authorities are investigating other potentially related cyber operations linked to Russia, the agency says.
How each outlet framed it
- The Record leans critical
- attributes the intrusion to Turla and FSB links but leans on ESET's detail that the Cereal toolkit also hit Kazakhstan, and says SRI did not name the institution
Sources: The Record