The domains also targeted think tanks in the US and EU.
). According to Microsoft, Russian spies used these sites to target Ukrainian media outlets, as well as foreign policy think tanks and government institutions located in the US and the European Union.
Microsoft obtained a court order to take control of each domain on April 6th. It then redirected them to , or a server used by cybersecurity experts to capture and analyze malicious connections. The company says it has seized over 100 domains controlled by Fancy Bear before this most recent takedown.“We believe Strontium was attempting to establish long-term access to the systems of its targets, provide tactical support for the physical invasion and exfiltrate sensitive information,” Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of customer security and trust said in the post.
This particular hacking group has a long history of attempting to interfere with both Ukraine and the US. Fancy Bear was linked to
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