Daniel GasiorekMay 22, 2023
Andy Greenberg
Last week’s news of an FBI operation against the Russian hacker group Turla offered an excuse to sketch out the 25-year history of these elite FSB cyberspies—and to try to capture why so many intel analysts and security researchers are obsessed with them. https://www.wired.com/story/turla-history-russia-fsb-hackers/
The Underground History of Turla, Russia's Most Ingenious Hacker Group

From USB worms to satellite-based hacking, Russia’s FSB hackers, known as Turla, have spent 25 years distinguishing themselves as “adversary number one.”

WIRED
May 20, 2023 at 1:08pmWeb
Show threadAndy GreenbergMay 20, 2023
From the first-ever foreign state cyberspying operation to a USB worm that infected air-gapped DoD PCs to hiding in satellite comms to hijacking the infrastructure of other hackers, Turla’s persistence and ingenuity have made it “adversary number one” as @ridt puts it.
Show threadAndy GreenbergMay 20, 2023
Hopefully that history also helps put the news that FBI dismantled Turla’s Snake malware network in perspective. As @BobGourley, who hunted Turla as a DoD intel officer 25 years ago says: “This is an infinite game. If they’re not already back in those systems, they will be soon.”
Show threadRandy 🇺🇦May 20, 2023
@agreenberg congrats on a well written history of an extremely interesting adversary. Amazingly concise retelling of 25 years worth of the exploits that we know about.