Russia’s Fancy Bear Hackers Likely Penetrated a US Federal
Agency
By Andy Greenberg
Published: 2020-10-01 · Archived: 2026-04-05 15:10:23 UTC
New clues indicate that APT28 may be behind a mysterious intrusion that US officials disclosed last week.
Russia's APT28 military intelligence hackers have been behind some of the biggest hacks of the last
several years.Photograph: Reuters
A warning that unidentified hackers broke into an agency of the US federal government and stole its data is
troubling enough. But it becomes all the more disturbing when those unidentified intruders are identified—and
appear likely to be part of a notorious team of cyberspies working in the service of Russia's military intelligence
agency, the GRU.
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Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED covering hacking, cybersecurity, and surveillance. He’s the author
of the books Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and Sandworm: A New
Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. His books ... Read More
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