Monday, September 26, 2016

Fancy Bear Strikes Again


During September 2017, the increasingly infamous Russian hacking entity known as “Fancy Bear” leaked more personal and confidential data from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) database. This data included more athletes’ medical information – this time from more countries than just the United States. It is widely believed that these cyber-attacks on WADA are in response to the independent investigations that exposed state-sponsored doping in Russia, a claim that Russian officials denied.   Despite Russia’s renunciation, a strong connection appears to be emerging with Russian state-sponsored hacking operations.  This information is being provided for your situational awareness.

Publication date:                  23 September 2016

Handling requirements:        Traffic light protocol (TLP) GREEN

Attribution/Threat Actors:    Fancy Bear, Fancy Bears & Fancy Bears’ Hack Team     

Actor Type:                           Adversary capabilities have been assessed as Tier V*

Potential Targets:                 USA / International

Past Reporting:                     Red Sky Alliance: DOC-2590, DOC-4007, Message-8625/8625

*State actors who create vulnerabilities through an active program to “influence” commercial products and services during design, development or manufacturing, or with the ability to impact products while in the supply chain to enable exploitation of networks and systems of interest.

The full attribution report has been published in its entirety in the Red Sky Alliance portal.  For more information please contact the lab directly at 844-4-WAPACK, 603-606-1246, or feedback@wapacklabs.com.

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