Mandiant did not identify individual victims or describe what specific information may have been stolen but did say unspecified “diplomatic entities” that received malicious phishing emails were among the targets. In short, Russia’s most elite state-backed hackers are as crafty and adaptable as ever. Mandiant researchers said the Russian hackers “continue to innovate and identify new techniques and tradecraft” that lets them linger in victim networks, hinder detection and confuse attempts to attribute hacks to them. Mandiant tips its hat to Microsoft’s threat researchers in the report. The Mandiant findings follow an October report from Microsoft that the hackers, whose umbrella group it calls Nobelium, continue to infiltrate the government agencies, foreign policy think tanks and other organizations focused on Russian affairs through the cloud service companies and so-called managed services providers on which they increasingly rely. As it happens, those gangs are largely protected by the Kremlin. government was consumed in 2021 by a separate, eminently “noisy” and headline-grabbling cyber threat - ransomware attacks launched not by nation-state hackers but rather criminal gangs.
The Russian cyber spying unfolded, as always, mostly in the shadows as the U.S. “Not everybody is disclosing the incident(s) because they don’t always have to disclose it legally,” he said, complicating damage-assessment. “The companies that are getting hacked, they are also losing information.” While the number of government agencies and companies hacked by the SVR was smaller this year than last, when some 100 organizations were breached, assessing the damage is difficult, said Charles Carmakal, Mandiant’s chief technical officer. On the anniversary of the public disclosure of the SolarWinds intrusions, Mandiant said the hackers associated with Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency continued to steal data “relevant to Russian interests” with great effect using novel, stealthy techniques that it detailed in a mostly technical report aimed at helping security professionals stay alert. and allied government agencies and foreign policy think tanks with consummate craft and stealth, a leading cybersecurity firm reported Monday. He said he didn’t have too much luggage, just “ a tuxedo, two tennis rackets, a title and talent”.WASHINGTON (AP) - The elite Russian state hackers behind last year’s massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign hardly eased up this year, managing plenty of infiltrations of U.S. In 1936, hungry for adventure, Oleg Cassini headed off to America.
Oleg, who took his mother’s beautiful last name, enrolled at the University of Florence where he studied Political Science and fine art under legendary French designer Jean Patou. They moved to Florence, Italy, where Oleg’s mother, Marguerite Cassini, opened a fashion boutique. They lost a fortune and, like many others, from revered composer Sergei Rachmaninoff to renowned philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, the Loiewski family was forced to leave Russia and move back to Europe. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution literally turned their life upside down. His father was an impoverished Russian count and diplomat, while his mother, an Italian countess, was the daughter of the Tsar’s Ambassador to Washington at the end of the 19th century. Oleg Cassini was born as Oleg Loiewski in 1913 in Paris, into an aristocratic Russian family with Italian ancestry. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy called Oleg Cassini her ‘Secretary of Style’, the job title that spoke volumes about the designer’s reputation, status and authority that comes with it.
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