Today, Dutch intelligence (AIVD and MIVD) and Microsoft have published two reports unveiling a potential new Russian threat actor: Laundry Bear, or Void Blizzard. This actor was discovered through a recent compromise of the Dutch Police, and it has been targeting Western organizations since at least 2024, including armed forces, government organizations and defense contractors, […]
GRU
GRU military unit 29155
GRU’s military unit 29155 (161st Specialist Training Center) has been historically engaged in kinetic active measures such as subversion, assassinations or sabotage. Soviet or Russian active measures refer to covert operations aimed at influencing third countries’ politics or public opinion. They include from cyberspace activities to “wet stuff” (or “bloody stuff”, or simply “stuff that […]
(Cyber) GRU (X): objectives
Apart from some more specific objectives, such as Westinghouse Electric Company’s – with business in nuclear technology – or domestic routers that can be compromised to orchestrate a distributed attack against the real objective, the information published in 2018 has brought to light five major GRU objectives, consistent with the interests of the Service and […]