From Martini to Malware: Fancy Bear’s Naughty NATO Nibble – A Tale of Cyber Espionage

From a ‘bear’ necessity to a full-blown cyber picnic, Russian State-Sponsored Hacking is on a roll. APT28, or Fancy Bear, has been playing a high-stakes game of Risk with NATO’s Rapid Deployable Corps. They’ve turned Microsoft Outlook’s bug into their honey pot, and make no mistake, this bear isn’t ready for hibernation.

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Well, well, well, if it isn't our old friend Fancy Bear back at it again? The Russian state-sponsored hackers, who we've lovingly dubbed APT28, have been busy bees, buzzing around NATO's Rapid Deployable Corps. They've been exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Outlook (hey, we've all been there, right?) and doing their darndest to swipe sensitive data. The whole scenario is like a bad James Bond movie, except instead of martinis, shaken, not stirred, we have malware, installed, not desired.

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