Russian spies targeting UK MPs and media with ‘cyber interference’

Foreign Office minister tells MPs that FSB is ‘behind sustained effort to interfere in our democratic processes’

The Russian Federal Security Service has used “cyber interference” to target MPs, journalists and others as part of attempts to “meddle in British politics”, the Foreign Office minister Leo Docherty has told the Commons.

Speaking about Russian “attempted cyber interference” and “malicious cyber activity”, Docherty said: “I can confirm today that the Russian Federal Security Services, the FSB, is behind a sustained effort to interfere in our democratic processes.