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IT Jungle
February 12, 2018
As far back as the summer of 2014, the Netherlands' Joint Sigint Cyber Unit managed to infiltrate a Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as “Cozy Bear.” Their den was apparently located in a university building next to Moscow's Red Square. And not only were the Dutch clever enough to infiltrateÃÂ ...
Fast Company
February 9, 2018
Since at least 2010, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Cozy Bear has been implicated in cyber attacks around the world, penetrating networks belonging to the U.S. State Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Democratic National Committee, and targeting other systems around the worldÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
January 31, 2018
Consider the article in a Dutch newspaper that describes how a team of that country's cyberspies hacked into Cozy Bear's systems back in 2014. This Russian team, also known as APT29, has been active since 2010 in breaking into networks across the West, from the Democratic National Committee to theÃÂ ...
BleepingComputer
January 30, 2018
The Dutch media's obsession with Russia is not accidental. Last week, Dutch newspaper Volkskrant and TV station NOS published a report claiming that the country's AIVD intelligence service compromised the computer of a hacker part of Russian-based cyber-espionage group Cozy Bear (also known asÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
January 29, 2018
Cybersecurity intelligence firms have linked Cozy Bear to Russian intelligence services in the past. In the wake of last week's revelations, Dutch politicians feared retaliation against Dutch companies and government infrastructure. Kees Verhoeven, an MP specializing in digital and cyber issues and leadingÃÂ ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
January 27, 2018
Reports carried in the respected daily Volkskrant and by the current affairs show Nieuwsuur said hackers working for the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service penetrated the computers used by the group, often nicknamed Cozy Bear, in mid-2014 and watched them for at least a year, evenÃÂ ...
Business Insider
January 26, 2018
Current affairs program Nieuwsuur and newspaper de Volkskrant based the story on several anonymous intelligence sources in the Netherlands and the United States. The Moscow-based group known as Cozy Bear is widely suspected of hacking the Democratic Party and is believed to be linked to theÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
January 26, 2018
AMSTERDAM – A Dutch newspaper and television show are jointly reporting that the Netherlands' spy service broke into the computers used by a Russian hacking group often nicknamed Cozy Bear and may be sitting on evidence relating to the hack of the U.S. Democratic National Committee. ReportsÃÂ ...
Civicist
January 26, 2018
An article in the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant alleges that Dutch spy agencies know about Russian interference in the 2016 election because they hacked the headquarters of the Russian hacking group Cozy Bear some years ago, and gained access to the footage from a security camera, Kevin DrumÃÂ ...
The Register
January 26, 2018
AIVD was, we're told, able to compromise security cameras surrounding the building used by the Cozy Bear crew, to look out for known Russian spies entering the joint. The Euro snoops duly tipped off the FBI that something was afoot. "Hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided theÃÂ ...
UNIAN
January 26, 2018
Reports carried in the respected daily Volkskrant and the current affairs show Nieuwsuur say hackers working for the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service penetrated the computers used by the group, often nicknamed Cozy Bear, in mid-2014 and watched them for at least a year, even managingÃÂ ...
WAtoday
January 26, 2018
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign was disrupted by emails hacked by 'Cosy Bear' a Russian hacking group. Photo: AP. The Moscow-based group known as Cozy Bear is widely suspected of hacking the Democratic Party and is believed to be linked to the Russian government.
Defense One
January 26, 2018
The story recounts how the Dutch managed to penetrate the internal computer network of Cozy Bear, one of Russia's most effective hacker groups. (“The AIVD can now trace the Russian hackers' every step. But that's not all…A security camera records who enters and who exits the room. The AIVD hackersÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 26, 2018
The AIVD was able to secretly monitor the Cozy Bear group—also known as APT29—and pass on evidence to U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian hackers attacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and current affairs show Nieuwsuur reported on Thursday,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
January 18, 2018
While Fancy Bear and the second hacking group, Cozy Bear, may have once been independent of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, GRU (the intelligence arm of Russia's military forces), a report released just weeks before Donald Trump's presidential inauguration made it clear that they were nowÃÂ ...
Politico
January 12, 2018
Fancy Bear was one of two groups, along with “Cozy Bear,” that U.S. officials and researchers have blamed for hacking the DNC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other mostly liberal targets in the run-up to the 2016 election. Some of those hacks were technically sophisticatedÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
January 8, 2018
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The Hill
January 3, 2018
The firm identified one intrusion beginning in summer 2015 linked to Cozy Bear, a hacking group believed to be affiliated with the FSB. CrowdStrike linked the second breach, which occurred in April 2016, to Fancy Bear, believed to be connected to the GRU. In the latest interview, Kozlovsky also claimed heÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 28, 2017
The firm identified one intrusion beginning in summer 2015 linked to Cozy Bear, a hacking group believed to be affiliated with the FSB. CrowdStrike linked the second breach, which occurred in April 2016, to Fancy Bear, believed to be connected to the GRU. In the latest interview, Kozlovsky also claimed heÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 27, 2017
Four Russian hackers have been rotting away in a notorious prison for more than a year—and they are either traitors to their country for telling U.S. intelligence agencies about Russian meddling in last year's U.S. election or just pawns in a bizarre power game by President Vladimir Putin. Almost nothingÃÂ ...
SC Magazine
December 22, 2017
The U.S. slid into the year on a wave of evidence from the intelligence community that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election, after Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear hackers pilfered email and other communications from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and other organizations andÃÂ ...
The News Journal
December 21, 2017
Gathered in Cashman's cozy Bear apartment earlier this month, Mueller mentioned that he wrote a special bris and baptism service for an interfaith couple. "That's ludicrous," Grumbacher chimed in. "We're bringing somebody into the covenant with the bris and you're bringing somebody into the covenant ofÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
December 14, 2017
In cyberspace, Russia reportedly hacked the US elections, the German Parliament, and Denmark's Defense Ministry. Its hackers also supposedly helped the Brexit campaign. The hacking groups Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, allegedly administered by Russian intelligence agencies, have become householdÃÂ ...
LifeZette
December 14, 2017
"Fancy Bear" and "Cozy Bear." There are no entities by these names. The names were given to hacking groups that were found to have breached the DNC server. The names were made up by one of the co-founders of Crowdstrike, Russian-born Dmitri Alperovitch. U.S. intelligence agencies have given theÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 11, 2017
They gave them two different monikers: Fancy Bear, from military intelligence, and Cozy Bear, from either foreign intelligence or the FSB. But neither bear seemed at all aware of what the other was doing, or even of the other's presence. “We observed the two Russian espionage groups compromise theÃÂ ...
AlterNet
December 8, 2017
She recalled that the United States intelligence agencies described the Russian hack involving two different hacker groups: fancy bear and cozy bear. The Information Security Department was the “cozy bear” in the intelligence information. At the meeting last year with high-ranking FSB officers, men rushedÃÂ ...
SC Magazine
April 24, 2017
Macron has blamed Russia for hacking his campaign in an attempt to swing the French election by spreading misleading information about him. Trend Micro researchers said today Fancy Bear, also known as Pawn Storm, targeted Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign in France. Macron has blamedÃÂ ...
LobeLog
December 31, 1999
by John Feffer The discussion of the Russia file these days sounds like the review of a fast-food restaurant. Echoing that infamous catchphrase of Wendy's that became a political meme in the 1984 presidential elections — Where's the Beef? —… Continue ReadingÃÂ ...
Fabius Maximus website (blog)
December 31, 1999
It was reported that Cozy Bear (aka APT29) was at the DNC since the Summer 2015 and that Fancy Bear (aka APT28) didn't start their attacks until Spring 2016. While it would seem logical to infer this as meaning that the Fancy Bear activity occurred just before CrowdStrike's visit, there is a reason to thinkÃÂ ...
SC Magazine
December 23, 2017
The U.S. slid into the year on a wave of evidence from the intelligence community that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election, after Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear hackers pilfered email and other communications from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and other organizations andÃÂ ...
The News Journal
December 22, 2017
Gathered in Cashman's cozy Bear apartment earlier this month, Mueller mentioned that he wrote a special bris and baptism service for an interfaith couple. "That's ludicrous," Grumbacher chimed in. "We're bringing somebody into the covenant with the bris and you're bringing somebody into the covenant ofÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
December 14, 2017
In cyberspace, Russia reportedly hacked the US elections, the German Parliament, and Denmark's Defense Ministry. Its hackers also supposedly helped the Brexit campaign. The hacking groups Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, allegedly administered by Russian intelligence agencies, have become householdÃÂ ...
LifeZette
December 14, 2017
"Fancy Bear" and "Cozy Bear." There are no entities by these names. The names were given to hacking groups that were found to have breached the DNC server. The names were made up by one of the co-founders of Crowdstrike, Russian-born Dmitri Alperovitch. U.S. intelligence agencies have given theÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 11, 2017
They gave them two different monikers: Fancy Bear, from military intelligence, and Cozy Bear, from either foreign intelligence or the FSB. But neither bear seemed at all aware of what the other was doing, or even of the other's presence. “We observed the two Russian espionage groups compromise the same systems andÃÂ ...
AlterNet
December 8, 2017
She recalled that the United States intelligence agencies described the Russian hack involving two different hacker groups: fancy bear and cozy bear. The Information Security Department was the “cozy bear” in the intelligence information. At the meeting last year with high-ranking FSB officers, men rushed ...
Raw Story
December 7, 2017
She recalled that the United States intelligence agencies described the Russian hack involving two different hacker groups: fancy bear and cozy bear. The Information Security Department was the “cozy bear” in the intelligence information. At the meeting last year with high-ranking FSB officers, men rushedÃÂ ...
https://en.crimerussia.com/
December 6, 2017
The company Crowdstrike announced the discovery of traces of two different hacker groups - Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, whose specialists used the Latin alphabet and rested during all-Russian holidays. At the same time, Mikhailov, according to his friend, blasted the MDI, which breaks the servers ...
CyberScoop
December 5, 2017
It's relatively common for hackers to leverage public events to lure targets into clicking a suspicious email or link. Other groups known to leverage this technique include Russian groups APT28 and APT29, more commonly known as “Fancy Bear” and “Cozy Bear.” APT28 used the technique in the aftermathÃÂ ...
KXLH Helena News
December 1, 2017
According to the post, two Russian-backed groups called "Cozy Bear" and "Fancy Bear" tunneled into the committee's computer system. In response, a blogger called Guccifer 2.0 claims that he alone conducted the hack, not the Russians. Furthermore, Guccifer 2.0 claims to have passed along thousands of ...
SC Magazine
November 28, 2017
A comparative analysis by Fidelis Cybersecurity in June 2016 supported findings by CrowdStrike that a pair of intrusions at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were the handiwork of the Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear APT groups with ties to Russian intelligence. Malware samples examined by Fidelis,ÃÂ ...
SC Magazine
April 24, 2017
Macron has blamed Russia for hacking his campaign in an attempt to swing the French election by spreading misleading information about him. Trend Micro researchers said today Fancy Bear, also known as Pawn Storm, targeted Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign in France. Macron has blamed ...
TheStranger.com
April 23, 2017
Silicon Valley's Season 3 finale aired on June 26, 2016. Four weeks later, venture capitalist Peter Thiel—partial inspiration for the show's Peter Gregory character—took the stage at the Republican National Convention and endorsed Donald Trump. A month later, Gawker shut down after Thiel bankrupted it ...
NBCNews.com
September 15, 2016
Does the Kremlin really want Tim Kaine's personal cell number or Simone Biles' blood tests? Foreign governments frequently hack their adversaries to gather valuable intelligence, but the boastful leaking of stolen information by the Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear hacker teams reveals there are other motives ...
Fast Company
June 14, 2016
Cozy Bear: Last year, the group (also known as CozyDuke or APT 29) hacked the White House, State Department and US Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as companies and government agencies in Western Europe, China, Brazil and many other countries. Preferred method: Broadly targeted spearphishing.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
In fact, the American intelligence services have identified two Russian hacking groups, code named Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, that spearheaded the effort. Konstantin I. Kosachyov, another senator, said Mr. Flynn's plea shows that he was trying to influence the Kremlin, not vice versa. “This doesn't add ...
Niagarafallsreporter.com
March 17, 2017
The malware found on DNC computers is said to be used by two groups believed "with a high level of confidence" to be Russian intelligence units codenamed Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear. An IP address and a link used in the phishing is believed to beÃÂ ...
Gant Daily
March 15, 2017
According to the post, two Russian-backed groups called "Cozy Bear" and "Fancy Bear" tunneled into the committee's computer system.
Dark Reading
March 15, 2017
APT29 aka Cozy Bear is the cyber espionage arm of the FSB, and was named by the US intel community as a perpetrator - along with the Russian military (coined APT28/Fancy Bear) - in hacks and data dumps related to the 2016 US presidential election.
Black Agenda Report
March 14, 2017
The new release from Wikileaks shows the CIA has all the tools it needs to leave "Russian" footprints behind its own hacking jobs.
Digital Chew
March 12, 2017
Bloomberg reports that both hacks used techniques used by Cozy Bear, a Russian group linked to hacking during last year's Presidential campaign.
