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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks is a book on the history of cybersecurity and computer hacking by Scott J. Shapiro, a professor of philosophy and law at Yale Law School. The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on May 23, 2023. [1]
[79] [80] Fancy Bear carried out spear phishing attacks on email addresses associated with the Democratic National Committee in the first quarter of 2016. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] In August 2016, members of the Bundestag and political parties such as Linken -faction leader Sahra Wagenknecht , Junge Union , and the CDU of Saarland were targeted by spear ...
Fancy Bear's targets have included Eastern European governments and militaries, the country of Georgia and the Caucasus, Ukraine, [25] security-related organizations such as NATO, as well as US defense contractors Academi (formerly known as Blackwater and Xe Services), Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), [26] Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon. [25]
Morris was born in 1965 to parents Robert Morris and Anne Farlow Morris. The senior Robert Morris was a computer scientist at Bell Labs, who helped design Multics and Unix; and later became the chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center, a division of the National Security Agency (NSA).
SecureWorks concluded Fancy Bear had sent Podesta an email on March 19, 2016, that had the appearance of a Google security alert, but actually contained a misleading link—a strategy known as spear-phishing. The link [160] —which used the URL shortening service Bitly—brought Podesta to a fake log-in page where he entered his Gmail credentials.
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Two County Fermanagh brothers who scammed elderly homeowners in the United States out of hundreds of thousands of dollars have been sentenced to 18 months in a US prison and face likely deportation.
"Cozy Bear" had access to DNC systems since the summer of 2015; and "Fancy Bear", since April 2016. There was no evidence of collaboration or knowledge of the other's presence within the system. Rather, the "two Russian espionage groups compromised the same systems and engaged separately in the theft of identical credentials".