Infighting Among Russian Security Services in the Cyber Sphere
summary
A decade of on‑the‑ground research traces escalating competition between Russia’s FSB, GRU, Interior Ministry and private firms, with observable outcomes: 35 high‑ranking officials prosecuted, 25 jailed, 18 serving over five years, split operations and duplicated targets (DNC/Bundestag breaches linked to both APT28 and APT29), and risky tooling exported or repurposed — Petya caused ~$10B in collateral damage and Triton nearly triggered deadly industrial explosions using malware components from a Russian military institute; treason prosecutions and arrests chill international cooperation.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:58About Russia
- 2:19Agenda
- 2:47Escalating Infighting
- 8:05What We Know
- 10:50Public Infighting
- 13:16The Trees
- 15:46Accusations
- 19:13Infighting
- 23:31Rumor
- 28:12Kaspersky
- 30:04guilty verdicts
- 30:41lessons learned
- 32:23Brian Krebs
- 35:13Other Lessons Learned
- 37:14Soundbites
- 37:30Questions
- 38:46Infighting in other governments
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