“It’s baffling,” Collier told the Guardian. “I find it interesting” was the only reply.Ĭollier also said there was something else odd about the email: it had come from a French AOL service so insecure that it included the sender’s IP address in the email. In June, Guccifer contacted Vocativ writer Kevin Collier through Twitter to offer a story about the DNC leaks, insisting on encryption Collier said the story he received by email was so offbeat he asked Guccifer what good it could possibly be. The new ThreatConnect report suggests that the person who has been giving interviews under the name Guccifer 2.0 to the press isn’t a hacker at all. “In fact, our team considers them some of the best adversaries out of all the numerous nation-state, criminal and hacktivist/terrorist groups we encounter on a daily basis.” “We’ve had lots of experience with both of these actors attempting to target our customers in the past and know them well,” wrote CrowdStrike’s Dmitri Alperovitch. The leaks led to the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC chair, after they revealed party staffers had favored Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over rival Bernie Sanders. DNC emails leaked by Guccifer 2.0 caused immense embarrassment ahead of the Democratic national convention. The hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is now being investigated by the FBI. Cozy Bear has dug into the state department the joint chiefs, and the White House, said CrowdStrike, which analyzed those hacks. Security firm ThreatConnect issued a comprehensive report on Tuesday using their own data and data from previous reports by rivals CrowdStrike, Mandiant and Fidelis.Ĭrowdstrike associates Fancy Bear with other Russian intrusions, notably one into the German Bundestag in May and another into French television network TV5 Monde. Guccifer 2.0, the hacker behind the recent Democratic party email leak, is not a single operator but Russian cybercriminals designated Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear by investigators who have invaded the White House and the Bundestag between them, according to leading cybersecurity firms.
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