Nine-Year Fraud Campaign Clones Russian Company Sites to Steal Advance Payments

The Hacker News 29 Jul 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale fraud campaign that involves creating lookalike websites of major Russian companies with an aim to siphon funds from international firms for more than nine years. According to Russian cybersecurity vendor F6, the threat actors have set up clone websites of Russian companies across fertilizer manufacturers, petrochemical companies

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