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The Russian Invasion|The Cyber Attacks
The whistleblower: GRU and FSB are hiding behind the company
The disclosure of how a private IT company is used by Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin for cyber warfare is linked to an anonymous whistleblower who previously worked for the company NTC Vulkan. The person contacted the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung after the invasion of Ukraine last year in protest against the war.
Among other things, the person said that the Russian intelligence services GRU and FSB are "hiding behind the company".
After handing over reams of secret data depicting how Russian cyber warfare is organized, the person went underground, without identifying himself. Der Spiegel has since worked with ten different news providers in eight
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The Russian invasion The cyber attacks
Kremlin's cyber strategy revealed in rare leak
Close links between Russian cyberattacks and the Kremlin are revealed in thousands of leaked documents that go by the name "Vulkan Files". Behind the disclosure are newspapers such as The Guardian, Washington Post, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Der Spiegel in collaboration with the journalist network Paper trail media.
The documents are linked to a Russian whistleblower at the cyber security firm NTC Vulkan, with offices in northeast Moscow. It shows how the company assisted the military and the intelligence service during hacker attacks by, among other things, creating systems, training operators, spreading misinformation and controlling access to the internet. It is also clear how the hacker group Sandworm, which is said to have caused blackouts in Ukraine and disrupted the Olympics in South Korea, among other things, used one of the systems developed by Vulkan.
According to The Guardian, this type of leak from the Russian side is very unusual. The source, who previously worked for NTC Vulkan, contacted German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung after the invasion last year.
- I am angry about what is happening in Ukraine, said the whistleblower at the time.
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