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
Forest Blizzard, BlueDelta, Sofacy Group, Tsar Team, Sofacy, TG-4127, Swallowtail, FROZENLAKE, APT28, SNAKEMACKEREL, Pawn Storm, Zebrocy, GruesomeLarch, UAC-0001, Sednit, STRONTIUM, Tsar-Team, Iron Twilight, UAC-0028, Fighting Ursa
Objective
Intelligence Gathering
Motivation
State-Sponsored
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