By Eduard Kovacs on June 29, 2016
The notorious cyberespionage group Pawn Storm has targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals in Russia, the United States, Europe and former Soviet Union countries.
The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor is also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, TG-4127, Strontium, Sofacy, Sednit and Tsar Team. It is one of the two supposedly Russian threat groups believed to have breached the systems of the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Shortly after news broke that Russian hackers had targeted DNC systems, researchers at SecureWorks reported that Pawn Storm had attempted to steal credentials associated with nearly 4,000 Gmail accounts between October 2015 and May 2016. The list of targets included people working for or associated with the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
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