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FSB Alleges Mass Cyber Spying Involving Global Tech Firms Fastly and ... Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed Tuesday that it uncovered a major cyber operation orchestrated by Western intelligence agencies and major tech companies to secretly hack and spy on the smartphones of high-ranking Russian officials. In a statement, the FSB alleged that malware planted on the phones allowed foreign spies to steal personal data, wiretap calls and remotely monitor and record surrounding audio and activity. “Western intelligence obviously thought it would be simpler and cheaper to hack mobile phones than recruit high-value informants among holders of state secrets,” an FSB officer said in a video accompanying the statement. The officer, whose identity was not revealed and faced away from the camera, claimed that compromised Russian officials are “systematically” added to U.S. and EU sanctions lists after Western intelligence agents collect “compromising materials” to pressure them. The FSB did not identify any of the allegedly compromised Russian officials. A separate video released by the state-run news agency TASS showed the San Francisco and London offices of major web services …

FSB Alleges Mass Cyber Spying Involving Global Tech Firms Fastly and Cloudflare The FSB said the cyber operation was orchestrated by Western intelligence agencies and major tech companies to secretly hack and spy on the smartphones of high-ranking Russian officials.

NB: “… [the FSB claimed that it uncovered a major cyber operation orchestrated by Wstrn intelligence agencies and major tech companies to secretly hack and spy on the smartphones of high-ranking RU officials.” Going to add to already high level of paranoia for Putin and team.

Russia's FSB Claims Foreign Spies Installed Phone Surveillance Malware Russia’s Federal Security Service announced on June 2, 2026 that it had discovered a “large-scale operation” in which unnamed foreign intelligence services deployed malicious software on the smartphones of Russian senior government officials, converting the devices into surveillance instruments capable of extracting data, intercepting communications, and conducting covert monitoring. The FSB provided no malware name, no infection method, and no technical indicators that would permit independent verification of the claims. The FSB’s announcement extended to a specific allegation: some of the officials targeted in the surveillance campaign subsequently appeared on US and European Union sanctions lists. The implication is that the surveillance operation served as an intelligence-gathering mechanism informing Western sanctions targeting decisions. The FSB distributed a video as part of its announcement, but the evidentiary content was limited to assertions rather than forensic documentation. The FSB named Cloudflare and Fastly as infrastructure allegedly used to route the surveillance campaign’s command-and-contr…