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VENOMOUS BEAR is a sophisticated Russia-based adversary assessed with high confidence to be attributable to the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation based on multiple observables including demonstrated technical capabilities, targeting profile, associations with Russian government-operated research institutes, links to Russian government-related commercial entities, and a numbe...

  • Venomous Bear

  • Russian Federation, Eastern Europe, Europe

Community Identifiers

Uroboros, BELUGASTURGEON, Snake, IRON HUNTER, SUMMIT, Secret Blizzard, KRYPTON, Turla, Waterbug, Blue Python

Objective

Intelligence Gathering

Motivation

State-Sponsored

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