Microsoft: Russia sent its B team to wipe Ukrainian hard drives
Microsoft linked Cadet Blizzard to Russia's GRU military intelligence unit. While it doesn't have the same profile as other state-sponsored Russian teams – like Forest Blizzard and Seashell Blizzard – Microsoft says"the emergence of a novel GRU affiliated actor, particularly one which has conducted destructive cyber operations likely supporting broader military objectives in Ukraine, is a notable development in the Russian cyber threat landscape.
The researchers drew a picture of a gang of miscreants that can be disruptive using multiple modes of attack – but is less prolific and less successful than better-known GRU-backed groups, and runs its operations in a disorderly fashion. "Cadet Blizzard seeks to conduct disruption, destruction, and information collection, using whatever means are available and sometimes acting in a haphazard fashion," they wrote."While the group carries high risk due to their destructive activity, they appear to operate with a lower degree of operational security than that of longstanding and advanced Russian groups such as Seashell Blizzard and Forest Blizzard.
"What's perhaps most interesting about this actor is its relatively low success rate compared with other GRU-affiliated actors," Burt wrote in aHe noted that system-wiping attacks by Seashell Blizzard in February 2022 affected more than 200 systems in 15 organizations. WhisperGate the month before impacted"an order of magnitude fewer systems and delivered comparatively modest impact, despite being trained to destroy the networks of their opponents in Ukraine.
In addition, even in success, Cadet Blizzard seems to come up short. A"Free Civilian" Telegram channel – used by the group to distribute information gained from hack-and-leak operations – had only 1,300 followers as of February, with posts getting no more than a dozen reactions.
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