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GRU

Russia's military intelligence agency, overseeing cyber units such as APT28 and Sandworm alongside traditional espionage and covert operations abroad.

Known aliases

  • Inteligencia militar rusa
  • Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
  • Main Intelligence Directorate
  • Russian GRU
  • Russian military intelligence

Current stories

securityConfirmed3 publishers

Insikt Group traces six months of Word macro lures on three governments to GRU's BlueDelta

The new backdoor, HOOKEDGE, is a Windows batch script that beacons to a free webhook.site endpoint. Insikt Group calls the BlueDelta attribution moderate confidence, resting on overlap with the older HEADLACE implant.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 68%
Investor
Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives35
Confidence60
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Leaked Bauman files name the GRU department that fed graduates into APT28 and Sandworm

A media consortium and DomainTools worked through more than 2,000 records from a Moscow engineering department that appears on no public org chart, and found roughly 250 students on a documented path into Russian military intelligence.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 65%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Insufficient
Confidence60