Cybersecurity incident — 2023-10-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: Users of the Russian Jabber messaging service
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Network Infrastructure
Motive: Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

A man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack on jabber.ru (aka xmpp.ru) service's servers, hosted by German providers Hetzner and Linode, is believed to have been set up as lawful interception.