Posts Tagged: "cyber espionage"

On July 16, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), with the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) in agreement, published a report titled: “Advisory: APT29 targets COVID-19 vaccine development.” The report provided details of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) recently used by a cyber espionage group known as APT29, “the Dukes” or “Cozy Bear”. The United States’ Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) endorsed the technical detail and mitigation advice provided in the report. According to a press release associated with the report, “NCSC are almost certain (95%+) that APT29 are part of the Russian Intelligence Services” and “NCSC assess it is highly likely (80 – 90%) that [APT29’s] activity was to collect information on COVID-19 vaccine research or research into the COVID-19 virus itself.”