The History of Terrorism
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Fancy Bear
Dave Emory discusses Fancy Bear at 14 minutes.
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Fancy Bear
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1918-1992 Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)
Alleged Russian Hackers
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Organizations associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
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2016 The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election (book)
2016-Today Russian Hacking AKA DNC Hacking AKA Russiagate AKA Neo-McCarthyism AKA New Cold War
2018 The firm also did something unusual: It named the Russian spy agencies it believed responsible for the hack. Fancy Bear, the firm said, worked in a way that suggested affiliation with the GRU. Cozy Bear was linked to the FSB.
2020 CIA admits to dumping information on russian hackers (most likely fancy bear?)
2020 NYT - Russians Hacked Ukrainian Gas Company at Center of Impeachment
2021 Facing extradition to the US, Klyushin's lawyer maintained that the insider trading charge was fabricated as a "pretext" to get him to the US where he will be pressed for information...
2024 Forbes - Who Is Midnight Blizzard? Russian-Linked Group Has Repeatedly Targeted Microsoft, Company Says
A group called WikiSaudiLeaks, probably a Guccifer-like front for Fancy Bear, claimed that "WikiLeaks have been given access to some part of these documents."
Fancy Bear tried to gain access to defense ministries, embassies, and military attaches. The largest group of targets, some 40 percent, were current and former military personnel.
German intelligence later traced the Bundestag breach to the Russian GRU, aka Fancy Bear.
The other, known as Fancy Bear, had broken in not long before Putin's appearance at the St. Petersburg forum.
To manage so many short URLs, Fancy Bear had created an automated system that used a popular link-shortening service called Bitly.
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Cozy Bear