As we have said, if until this year the GRU was one of the most opaque services in the world, in 2018 everything changes. Three facts stand out in the chronography, which conclude with the death of Lieutenant General KOROBOV in November; we will see in this section the first of them -and in the […]
Cyber (GRU) (II): historical SIGINT
The GRU, Military Unit 44388, obtains and processes intelligence from multiple disciplines, including IMINT, SATINT and, of course OSINT, with information needs linked to the military, political, technological, economic and ecological/energy fields ([1]). It was already indicated in the article dedicated to the GRU, within the series on the Russian Cyberintelligence Community, that the Sixth […]
(Cyber) GRU (I): Introduction
As we already mentioned in the post about it, within the series on the Russian Cyberintelligence Community, the GRU (GU) is the most opaque of the Russian services, maintaining almost intact its Soviet heritage against the “westernized” FSB o SVR: in fact, the structure and operation of the Service has not been especially well known, […]
WIRTE Group attacking the Middle East
The Intelligence Development Group of S2 Grupo has carried out an investigation on an actor from whom LAB52 has not been able to find references or similarities in open sources and who has been identified as WIRTE. The DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response) team of S2 Grupo first identified this actor in August 2018 […]
ORANGEWORM GROUP – KWAMPIRS ANALYSIS UPDATE
The OrangeWorm group was named and described by the Symantec Company in different blog entries [1] [2]. We would highlight from these entries that it is a group that has been operational since 2015 and is focused on attacking the health, pharmaceutical, technological, manufacturing and logistics sectors. The sector most affected is healthcare as described […]
Sport as Softpower for the great Powers.
APT is the acronym of Advanced Persistent Threat. That is the name that receives a group of attackers that usually is related to a Nation-State to carry out cyberattacks to a concrete organizations that are considered targets by the threat group and the State which is sponsoring it. Cyber espionage has increased towards anti-doping sports […]