{"id":12723,"date":"2026-05-09T02:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/inside-department-4-russias-secret-school-for-hackers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:03:30","slug":"inside-department-4-russias-secret-school-for-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/inside-department-4-russias-secret-school-for-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Department 4: Russia\u2019s secret school for hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Inside Department 4: Russia\u2019s secret school for hackers<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>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&#8217;s most notorious state-sponsored hacking groups.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/inside-department-4-russias-secret-school-for-hackers\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Department 4: Russia\u2019s 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&#8217;s most notorious state-sponsored hacking groups. Read more in my article on the Hot for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416,54,155,164,258,317,2465],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-12723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy-bear","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-malware","category-russia","category-sandworm","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}