
The U.S. military, defense contractors, government agencies, think tanks, the media and others are being targeted in wave of spear phishing emails potentially launched by a Russian hacker group, researchers with the cyber security firm FireEye [FEYE] say in a new blog post.FireEye detected the spear phishing on Nov. 20, saying the activity is the same as a previous targeted phishing campaign by APT29, also known as Cozy Bear, but attribution is pending. If it turns out that APT29 is…