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.
About Wapack Labs
Wapack Labs, located in New Boston, NH is a Cyber Threat Analysis and Intelligence organization supporting the Red Sky Alliance, the FS-ISAC and individual organizations by offering expert level targeted intelligence analysis answering some of the hardest questions in Cyber. Wapack Labs’ engineers, researchers and analysts use deep analysis techniques and visualization to design and deliver transformational cyber-security analysis tools that fuse open source and proprietary information. The intelligence derived from these tools and techniques serve as the foundation of Wapack Labs’ information reporting to the cyber-security teams of its customers and industry partners located around the world.
