Igor Gorgan #Moldova general was just outed as #Russia#GRU agent by Russian opposition The Insider project, including Telegram photos, messages and voice calls with Russian handlers.
Reading various news about russian secret operations in europe it's clear there is already a covert war going on, on par with the cold war of the 80s it seems, with GRU and FSB involved in all kind of operations. #russia#GRU#FSB#spying#disinformation#geopolitics@geopolitics
Former Austrian intelligence official Egisto Ott, now taken into custody, supplied information to Jan #Marsalek on the address and security arrangements of Christo #Grozev, an investigative journalist resident in #Vienna who - via @Bellingcat - exposed #Russia’s attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal and other #GRU operations. Marsalek used the info to co-ordinate an elite “seal” squad of #FSB agents who broke into Grozev’s apartment and stole a laptop + USB sticks.
V theins.ru:
Unraveling #Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the #GRU 's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on Americans, at home and abroad
Moscow has found better ways to conceal #influence ops, by using harder-to-trace tech, to amplify arguments for #isolationism before #UnitedStates elections, acc/to disinfo experts & #intelligence.
These techniques are subtle & far more skillful than what #Russia attempted in 2016, when it made up FB posts or tweets in the names of nonexistent Americans, & used them to fuel protests over #immigration or other hot-button issues.
The result is that much of the original speech is First Amendment-protected — say a member of #Congress [#HouseRepublicans] declaring that resources being sent to #Ukraine should instead be used to patrol the southern border of the #UnitedStates. But the amplification is engineered in #Russia or by #RussianInfluencers.
#Russia’s most notorious assassination and sabotage squad has infiltrated a host of #Russian civil society organizations, The Insider has discovered. #GRU Unit 29155, responsible for poisonings and terror attacks across #Europe, has also been spying on opponents of Russian President Vladimir #Putin’s regime, both inside Russia and abroad, by posing as human rights activists, documentarians, and trade journalists.
Terrifying: Putin’s assassination and terrorism squad behind the Skripal poisoning and bombings across Europe has also infiltrated Russian NGOs including Kasparov’s. GRU Unit 29155 has “illegals” spying within and without Russia. #Putin#Russia#GRUhttps://theins.ru/en/politics/268886
Our man in #Brussels: The Insider has unmasked the #GRU officer #Labin helping the #Kremlin evade sanctions from his base in the heart of Europe.
Labin supplies Russian arms manufacturers with European-made coordinate-measuring machines, a high-tech machine tool critical in the production of the Kremlin’s hypersonic Kinzhal missile.
Igor #Salikov was a Russian #GRU officer and former #Wagner PMC fighter who defected after witnessing war crimes in #Ukraine. Since 2014, he participated in #Russia’s covert takeover of eastern Ukraine under the direction of Vladislav #Surkov.
In a bombshell interview with Russian human rights activist, Gulagu.net founder Vladimir #Osechkin, Salikov described how Surkov carefully crafted the narrative of a separatist uprising led by locals.
#Ukraine#Russia#Cybersecurity#StateHacking#GRU#Hacking: "Over nearly a decade, the hacker group within Russia's GRU military intelligence agency known as Sandworm has launched some of the most disruptive cyberattacks in history against Ukraine's power grids, financial system, media, and government agencies. Signs now point to that same usual suspect being responsible for sabotaging a major mobile provider for the country, cutting off communications for millions and even temporarily sabotaging the air raid warning system in the capital of Kyiv.
On Tuesday, a cyberattack hit Kyivstar, one of Ukraine's largest mobile and internet providers. The details of how that attack was carried out remain far from clear. But it “resulted in essential services of the company’s technology network being blocked,” according to a statement posted by Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT-UA.
Kyivstar's CEO, Oleksandr Komarov, told Ukrainian national television on Tuesday, according to Reuters, that the hacking incident “significantly damaged [Kyivstar's] infrastructure [and] limited access.”"
Denmark's CERT (SektorCERT) reported that 22 companies that operate parts of Danish energy infrastructure were compromised in a May 2023 coordinated attack, linked to SANDWORM actors. Sandworm is a state-sponsored APT publicly attributed to Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate’s Russian (GRU’s) Main Centre for Special Technologies (GTsST) by the U.S. government. The attackers leveraged a Zyxel vulnerability CVE-2023-28771 (9.8 critical) to gain control of the firewall. SektorCERT's incident response report includes a detailed analysis and timeline of the attack, recommendations and IOC. Link:https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/D4D1FAQG-Qsry8BH9dg/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed/0/1699785104486?e=1700697600&v=beta&t=icNMQ-rDYgeSojoaax-1KpC7YrCF7MVtkrDClSFiKIY
In November 2011, #GRU Unit #29155 blew up an ammunition depot in #Lovnidol, #Bulgaria, containing artillery destined for Georgia. It was the first known terror attack perpetrated by the team of hitmen and saboteurs who would later poison Sergei and Yulia #Skripal in #England, a Bulgarian arms dealer in #Sofia, and blow up a host of other storage facilities and buildings across #NATO territories.
In a joint new investigation, two divisions of Radio Free Europe — the Ukraine-based #Skhemy project and the Russian media #Sistema — uncovered an illicit military recruitment scheme run by Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (#GRU). The military intelligence agency, it appears, is using a fictitious private military company, PMC #Redut (which translates as “Redoubt”), to recruit mercenaries for the war in Ukraine.
Another intriguing figure in #Moscow’s delegation to the Middle East is 'General Andrey #Averyanov - he is one of #Russia's top spies and he has been linked in reporting to many of the #assassination attempts, subterfuge, abroad that has been carried out by Russian military intelligence. In 2018 there was an assassination attempt on sergey #skripal , former russian spy, on British soil. And this general was linked to the elite #GRU group that carried out the operations https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5hlb