Russian Hackers Target Citizen Journalists Reporting On Malaysian Airlines Crash

A report released this week by security vendor ThreatConnect offers a glimpse at how threat actors with apparently strong ties to Moscow have been carrying out a sustained cyber campaign against a group of citizen journalists for publishing articles critical of Russia.

ThreatConnect’s report comes just days after another investigative reporter, Brian Krebs, was forced to take his website offline last week because of a massive distributed denial of service attack.