A TORY MSP has said that a “hostile” Russian group was behind a cyber attack on his website.
Murdo Fraser’s website had to be taken down because of what he deemed a “cowardly attack on democracy”.MP Stewart McDonald said his office was targeted for a second time by a “hostile foreign state”.ConservativeThe MSP’s website then had to be frozen, meaning it could not be accessed or updated, before eventually being given the go-ahead to go live again.
“I’m proud to support the people and government of Ukraine as they stand firm against Putin’s appalling invasion of their nation. Elsewhere, SNP MP McDonald said a researcher was contacted on networking site LinkedIn by an organisation which described itself as an independent think tank.He said: “The message said they were ‘looking for paid contributors to a non-partisan British publication which aims to raise the profile of the devolved administrations political news’ and asked if he would be interested in writing for them. He did not reply.
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