Russia's FSB Claims Foreign Intelligence Agencies Installed Malware on Senior Officials' Phones

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed it uncovered a “large-scale operation” by unnamed foreign intelligence agencies that installed malicious software on the mobile devices of senior Russian government officials. Few technical details have been released publicly. Russia has not named the attributed actors or identified the malware families used. The disclosure follows a long pattern of state-level mobile spyware operations against high-value government targets globally. Independent verification of the scope and attribution is not possible given currently available information.