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Sep 18, 2026
Andrew NeilHOST
GCHQ and NCSC, that's the main agencies in Britain that try to deal with these cyber attacks, they've identified sustained GRU and FSB activity.
Andrew NeilHOST
Take GR Unit 26165, also goes by the name Fancy Bear.
Andrew NeilHOST
The UK has attributed to it in 2025-26 widespread hacking of email credentials, compromising routers for DNS hijacking, rerouting traffic through Russian-controlled servers to steal logins, including government and law enforcement accounts.
Andrew NeilHOST
Western reporting puts the victim pool, those who've suffered from this, in the tens of thousands across many countries, including the United Kingdom.
speaker_3HOST
Oh, absolutely.
Chat GPTHOST
Groups like Russia's Fancy Bear and North Korea's famous Chelima They're using AI to automate their reconnaissance at an unprecedented scale.
speaker_3HOST
And North Korea has also been highly successful at scaling insider operations using AI-generated personas.
Chat GPTHOST
Oh yeah, the fake remote workers.
speaker_1HOST
too.
Chat GPTHOST
Groups like Russia's Fancy Bear and North Korea's famous Cholima, they're using AI to automate their reconnaissance at an unprecedented scale.
speaker_1HOST
And North Korea has also been highly successful at scaling insider operations using AI generated personas.
Chat GPTHOST
Oh, yeah.
Kseniia YamburhGUEST
Lately you, like, saw the techniques, like all, all technique overlaps, yes.
Kseniia YamburhGUEST
And, uh, you could say for sure, yeah, like it's, it's, uh, Lazarus or Blue Noroff, or I don't know, Fancy Bear, whatever.
Kseniia YamburhGUEST
But now techniques are in public record and, and, uh, criminals, they read, rebuild, and sometimes even improve them beyond the original.
Kseniia YamburhGUEST
And with the Digit Stealer, uh, it, it, it's what happened to Digit Stealer because they adopted some, uh, techniques, and they even im- improved them.
Robby PereltaHOST
That's what you were defending against, right? Defending
Jeff SchiemannGUEST
against APT 28 and 38 North Korean nation-state attackers who were focused on monetizing their attack chain very quickly.
Jeff SchiemannGUEST
which to some extent until February this year was pretty much the MO, pretty much the campaign from data extortion to ransom to monetization, crypto theft.
Jeff SchiemannGUEST
But we saw the striker hack, right? The striker hack was 100,000 deleted devices using Intune with no ransom.
speaker_0HOST
More than 2,000 leaked documents from Bauman Moscow State Technical University expose a secret department number four that trained hackers and propagandists for the Russian military.
speaker_0HOST
The files reveal a program linked to the GRU and advanced groups like APT28 and Sandworm, showing how engineering students are turned into cyber operators.
speaker_0HOST
This discovery exposes the deep integration between academic institutions and state-sponsored cyber warfare units.
speaker_0HOST
OpenAI has confirmed that its Astra model has reached the highest cybersecurity risk level in its preparedness framework.
Maria VarmazisHOST
[laughs]
Dave BittnerGUEST
Fancy Bear, Cozy Bear.
Dave BittnerGUEST
Uh, right?
Maria VarmazisHOST
Yeah.
Dave BittnerGUEST
I guess what I wonder is how much of this is marketing, right? 'Cause when we go to the RSA Conference or, you know, and we see vendors who have big, giant superhero-looking statues of the APTs, it becomes a way to help market your defenses against them.
Dave BittnerGUEST
The adversary isn't a big blurry, fuzzy blob on the other side of the world.
Dave BittnerGUEST
No, that's Fancy Bear.
Dave BittnerGUEST
No, that's, you know, uh, so now we have the Blizzards and the, you know, all, the...
Maria VarmazisHOST
[laughs]
Dave BittnerHOST
Fancy Bear.
Dave BittnerHOST
[laughs] Cozy Bear.
Dave BittnerHOST
Uh, right?
Dave BittnerHOST
I guess what I wonder is how much of this is marketing, right? 'Cause when we go to the RSA Conference or, you know, and we see vendors who have big, giant superhero-looking statues of the APTs, it becomes a way to help market your defenses against them.
Dave BittnerHOST
The adversary isn't a big, blurry, fuzzy blob on the other side of the world.
Dave BittnerHOST
No, that's Fancy Bear.
Dave BittnerHOST
No, that's, you know...
Claire AirdHOST
The FBI seized a version of the botnet in twenty twenty-four.
Claire AirdHOST
That was being used by APT28, a cyber unit inside Russia's military intelligence agency.
Claire AirdHOST
Social media giant Meta has disrupted the operations of six spyware and surveillance-for-hire vendors active on its platforms.
Claire AirdHOST
Meta says it took down a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts created by Israeli surveillance-for-hire vendor BindSe.