“We track all Russian threat actors under ‘bear'” said Adam Meyers, VP of intelligence at CrowdStrike and a widely recognised expert in the field, as he addressed a crowd at InfoSec 2017.
In a talk labelled Hacking Exposed: Real-World Tradecraft Bears, Pandas and Kittens, Meyers lifted the lid on some of the attribution work for which Crowdstrike has become famous.
Fancy Bear, along with Cozy Bear, was identified by Crowdstrike as the two Russian groups behind the ‘hacking’ of the US election in 2016. The firm gained international acclaim for labelling them as such.
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