Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, has long had a reputation as one of the world’s most aggressive practitioners of sabotage, assassination, and cyber warfare, with hackers who take pride in working under the same banner as violent special forces operators. But one new group within that agency shows how the GRU may be intertwining physical and digital tactics more tightly than ever before: a hacking team, which has emerged from the same unit responsible for Russia’s most notorious physical tactics, including poisonings, attempted coups, and bombings inside Western countries.
Källa: Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team
