Hackers Breach FSB Contractor and Leak Details About IoT Hacking Project

Russian hacker group Digital Revolution claims to have breached a contractor for the FSB -- Russia's national intelligence service -- and discovered details about a project intended for hacking Internet of Things (IoT) devices. From a report: The group published this week 12 technical documents, diagrams, and code fragments for a project called "Fronton." ZDNet has not seen the documents first hand since they are still password-protected; however, the hackers provided the files to BBC Russia earlier this week. According to screenshots shared by the hacker group, which ZDNet asked security researchers to analyze, and based on BBC Russia's report from earlier this week, we believe the Fronton project describes the basics of building an IoT botnet. The technical Fronton documents were put together following a procurement order placed by one of the FSB's internal departments, unit No. 64829, which is also known as the FSB Information Security Center.

Someone with one, do me a favor and ask

[bobstreo]

Alexa/Ok Google

Have you been hacked?

let me know what they say

In Russia...

[nospam007]

Russians hack themselves.

FSB is a building

[AHuxley]

Like NSA. Like GCHQ. A building is part of the complex security in depth.
With no devices allowed in and out.
Staff in and out have any devices detected.
"64829" ... "FSB Information Security Center" why would anyone in the West be telling Russia how much they know of their internal methods and work.. in the media... in real time..
If this was real it would be hinted at in a MI6/CIA/NSA/GCHQ/MI5/gov/mil approved for publication book chapter in 30 years to 50 years.
MI6 will only now talk of what the UK

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[arglebargle_xiv]

It is pretty brave of them to admit to hacking an FSB-affiliated organisation. I half expected the report to say "the FSB contractor was hacked by the group that used to operate from where that large smoking hole in the ground is".

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[AHuxley]

Did MI6 offer a passport and a drive to Finland?
Did the CIA offer a passport and cash?

Russian “hacker” and the FSB

[notdecnet]

> Russian hacker group Digital Revolution claims to have breached a contractor for the FSB

How did they know the hackers were contracted to the FSB. Did they leave a scan of the contract on the Internet?

> the hackers provided the files to BBC Russia earlier this week.

In other words we're pulling this BS out of our ass.

Re: Russian “hacker” and the FSB

[Dopamina]

What makes you think that your random denouncement holds more weight than the initial claim?

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[notdecnet]

> What makes you think that your random denouncement holds more weight than the initial claim?

Because I have no agenda and the source of such claims are the same people that found evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Saddam Husseins Iraq.