The British government has summoned the Russian ambassador and sanctioned two people for what it said was a sustained but failed attempt to interfere in politics by Russian cyber spies. A hacking group dubbed "Cold River" by cybersecurity researchers,

The Foreign Office said Russia's FSB agency was responsible for a range of cyberespionage operations in the U.K., including targeting British parliamentarians from multiple parties and “high-profile individuals and entities" from at least 2015,