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The Kazakhstan flag is shown before the finals of Kok-boru Finals against Kyrgyzstan during the World Nomad Games at the Hippodrome Racetrack on September 6, 2026 in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. Turla, a notorious cyberespionage group aligned with the Russian government, has been wielding a new, customizable toolset to compromise governments around the world over the past year, including Kazakhstan. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Russian Turla group used new toolset to silently pilfer emails from Kazakhstan, Romanian governments

Nicknamed “Turla’s Cereal,” the tools target Microsoft Exchange servers and lack many obvious indicators of compromise or malicious telemetry, per a new ESET report.
13 July 2026, Belgium, Brüssel: Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, is giving an interview in the hallway of the European Council ahead of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU member states. They are set to discuss the situation in the Near and Middle East as well as in Ukraine this Monday in Brussels. Photo: Michael Brandt/dpa (Photo by Michael Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Europe strikes out against Russia’s Turla over espionage, ‘destructive attacks’

The EU, its members and the U.K. took action against Russian government officials and others while attributing the winter cyberattacks against Poland’s energy grid to the FSB.
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