Russia-linked attackers hit UK Ministry of Defence, leak security data

Russian-aligned threat actors have reportedly hit the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) and leaked security information on military and intelligence sites online. Hackers targeted the database of Zaun, a firm which handles physical security for some of Britain’s most secretive locations including a nuclear submarine base, a chemical weapon lab, and a GCHQ listening post, according to The Mirror. They released thousands of pages of data which could include highly sensitive national security details, with information about high-security prisons also stolen in the raid by notorious…