Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/booz-allen-analyzed-200-russian-hacking-operations-to-better-understand-their-tactics/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet
March 27, 2020

Booz Allen Hamilton, the largest private contractor for the US intelligence 
community, has published a comprehensive report this week detailing 15 years 
(2004 to 2019) of cyber operations carried out by Russia's military hackers.

The report is a rarity in the cyber-security community because it focuses on 
the bigger picture of how Russia's military uses its hacking units to support 
its foreign policy all over the globe.

This is in contrast with most other reports from the infosec industry that 
usually focus their investigations on isolated events, avoiding any political 
analysis, and rarely attributing attacks back to foreign governments.

Instead, the Booz Allen report takes all the previous reporting on past Russian 
hacks and puts them in a broader political context, in order to understand why 
they happened, rather than how, which malware was used, and who pushed what 
button and when.

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