Russian GRU hacker group targets NATO, EU — German intelligence

Reuters reported the information.

On Monday, September 9, the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesverfassungsschutz), together with the FBI, the U.S. Cyber Security Agency CISA, the NSA and other international partners, issued a warning to the group known as UNC2589.

In its warning, the intelligence service said that the group, also known as Cadet Blizzard or Ember Bear, conducts espionage and sabotage activities, often accompanied by website damage and publication of stolen data.

The outlet reminded that the GRU unit to which the group belongs is suspected of involvement in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK in 2018.

• In 2020, Russian military intelligence hackers gained access to tens of thousands of Estonian documents for internal use, including trade secrets, as a result of a cyberattack.