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Fancy Bear
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FANCY BEAR is an adversary attributed to the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Главное разведывательное управление, abbreviated to ГРУ/GRU), assessed with high confidence. CrowdStrike Intelligence further assesses at moderate confidence that cyber operations undertaken by GRU are likely to be conducted by the 6th Directorate, which is responsible ...
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Fancy Bear
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Russian Federation, Eastern Europe, Europe
Community Identifiers
Sofacy, Zebrocy, UAC-0028, Forest Blizzard, GruesomeLarch, UAC-0001, APT28, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, TG-4127, Swallowtail, Sednit, Tsar Team, Tsar-Team, SNAKEMACKEREL, Fighting Ursa, FROZENLAKE, STRONTIUM, Iron Twilight
Objective
Intelligence Gathering
Motivation
State-Sponsored
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