EclecticIQ Fusion Center Report: Russian Hacking Group Fancy Bear Prepares to Attack Winter Olympics, U.S. Senate (English)
Report from EclecticIQ Fusion Center from Tuesday 13 February 2018.
Key Findings:
- The Fancy Bear Hack Team's Twitter account first announced potential activity against the 2018 Olympics on January 10th
- Security experts have found that the group, known as Intrusion Set: APT28, Fancy Bear or Pawn Storm, recently registered numerous malicious domains
- Some of these domains mimic legitimate properties related to the 2018 Olympic Games
- Spear-phishing emails were sent to several professional winter sporting organizations, including the International Ski Federation, International Ice Hockey Federation
- APT28 remains interested in hacking individuals involved with the U.S. Senate, as they have also registered a variety of rogue U.S. Senate websites
- Identified bitcoin-dns.hosting Nameservers, in which similar network infrastructure was identified in the APT28 DNC Hack
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