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The SVR is the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation and a state intelligence organization that conducts cyber-espionage operations against foreign governments, critical infrastructure, technology environments, and private-sector organizations. In cybersecurity reporting, SVR-linked intrusion activity is widely tracked under aliases including APT29, Cozy Bear, the Dukes, NOBELIUM, and Midnight Blizzard. SVR cyber operations are associated with long-duration, stealth-focused espionage campaigns emphasizing persistence, operational security, and access to high-value information. The service has been publicly attributed as responsible for the SolarWinds supply-chain compromise, in which malicious code was inserted into Orion software updates and selectively activated against a relatively small set of chosen victims despite much broader downstream exposure. Public reporting and government assessments also tie the SVR to exploitation of identity infrastructure, including password spraying, abuse of externally exposed administrative access, theft and abuse of authentication material, SAML token abuse, compromise of signing certificates, modification of federation trusts, and persistence through cloud application and service-principal manipulation. SVR tradecraft includes use of false identities, temporary communications infrastructure, cryptocurrency-supported infrastructure acquisition, low-reputation operational infrastructure, and anti-analysis or anti-forensic measures. The actor has demonstrated capability in supply-chain compromise, cloud and hybrid identity intrusion, credential theft, lateral movement, privilege escalation, covert command-and-control, and data exfiltration. In TeamCity-related operations exploiting CVE-2023-42793, authorities observed the SVR conducting large-scale opportunistic exploitation of unpatched internet-facing servers, followed by privilege escalation, Active Directory enumeration, credential dumping, persistence via scheduled tasks, deployment of additional backdoors, and defense evasion including BYOVD techniques to disable security tooling. Those operations used the GraphicalProton backdoor and abused legitimate cloud services for command-and-control and data concealment. Victimology attributed to the SVR includes U.S. federal agencies, European and NATO-linked government targets, Swiss authorities, universities, telecommunications operators, IT service providers, and a range of private-sector organizations. Public assessments also state that the SVR has targeted confidential and proprietary information since at least 2013 and has attempted to gain access to governments across Europe and NATO member states. The actor’s dominant motivation is espionage in support of Russian state intelligence requirements.
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48 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
19 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
14 additional families tracked in Mallory.
4 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 4 of them exploited in the wild.
JetBrains has released a software update for their TeamCity product that addresses the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-42793 and CVE-2023-43566. CVE-2023-42793 is a critical severity authentication bypass vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. Exploitation of CVE-2023-42793 could lead to a remote code execution (RCE) attack... Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) cyber actors—also known as APT 29, the Dukes, CozyBear, and NOBELIUM/Midnight Blizzard—are exploiting CVE-2023-42793 at a large scale.
"By exploiting multiple Pulse Secure VPN weaknesses (CVE-2019-11510, CVE-2020-8260, CVE-2020-8243, and CVE-2021-22893), UNC2630 is said to have harvested login credentials..." ... "...advisory, warning businesses of active exploitation of five publicly known vulnerabilities by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), including CVE-2019-11510..."
In a separate incident, SVR actors used CVE-2019-19781, a zero-day exploit at the time, against a virtual private network (VPN) appliance to obtain network access. Following exploitation of the device in a way that exposed user credentials, the actors identified and authenticated to systems on the network using the exposed credentials.
The VMware vCenter vulnerability (CVE-2021-21972) is present in the vCenter plugin for vRealize Operations (vROps) and is particularly interesting because it impacts all default vCenter Server installations. Thousands of unpatched vCenter servers are currently reachable over the Internet.
166 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
14 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Russian state intelligence service identified as a principal espionage threat to Switzerland, including cyber-enabled espionage and broader hybrid activity.
Attributed (in this content) with the 2020 SolarWinds supply-chain compromise enabling long-term access into multiple Western government agencies.
Referenced for adapting tactics to obtain initial access in cloud environments.
Exploited a TeamCity vulnerability (CVE-2023-42793) to gain access, move laterally within victim networks, and deploy backdoors (GraphicalProton) to enable follow-on operations.
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