Dutch intelligence officials and Microsoft warned today of a new Russian threat actor targeting Western organizations in what appears to be a military and high-tech espionage campaign. The new threat group – called Laundry Bear by the Dutch and Void Blizzard by Microsoft – was the subject of separate advisories today. The Netherlands General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and the Netherlands Defense Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) published a joint advisory, while Microsoft published a separate blog on the group. The threat group typically targets Microsoft email environments with attack techniques like stolen cookies and password spraying, then expands its attack from there while remaining difficult to detect.