Category: Fancy Bear

  • Inside Department 4: Russia’s secret school for hackers

    Inside Department 4: Russia’s secret school for hackers Most universities have a careers fair. At Bauman Moscow State Technical University, however, an elite group of students appear to have something rather more unusual: a direct pipeline into some of the world’s most notorious state-sponsored hacking groups. Read more in my article on the Hot for…

  • Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens

    Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks…