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How to Track Government Hackers and APTs

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Fancy Bear, APT10, Lazarus Group, Charming Kitten. These are all the names given to government hacker groups.


And if you pay any attention to cybersecurity news you heard about Russian hackers, Chinese hackers, and groups that are usually called APTs—government-sponsored hackers. This week we’re talking with Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Eva has been researching APTs for years, investigating these state hackers from all over every corner of the globe. Because countries everywhere are growing their cyber armies and there’s no signs of that slowing down.


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0:00.0

Tadden, it's got the code. It's going to launch.

0:09.0

It's a unit system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:25.5

Fancy bear, APT-10, Lazarus Group, Charming Kitten.

0:30.4

These are all the names given to government hacker groups.

0:33.3

And if you pay any attention to cybersecurity news,

0:36.0

you heard about Russian hackers, Chinese hackers,

0:38.8

and groups that are usually called APTs, government-sponsored hackers.

0:43.0

Today, the Department of Justice is announcing a criminal indictment of two hackers associated

0:48.0

with the Chinese government.

0:49.5

The FBI suspects the hack was perpetrated by Russian intelligence in an effort to elect Donald Trump.

0:55.0

We don't know for sure that they're colluding. All we know is that the hacking groups responsible go by the names Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear.

1:04.0

A Kremlin-backed cyber team known as Fancy Bear has also gone up to targets in Europe and Russia.

1:10.0

This week we're talking with Eva Galprin, the director of cyber security with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

1:15.9

Eva has been researching APTs for years, investigating these state hackers from all over every corner of the globe.

1:22.3

Because countries everywhere are growing their cyber armies, and there's no signs of that slowing down.

1:28.0

I'm national security reporter Ben Makou, and this is cyber.

1:38.5

So pretty crazy few weeks in APT land.

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