"Russia’s Election Hackers Use D.C. Cyber Warfare Conference as Bait The Kremlin’s top hackers are turning a gathering packed with NATO and U.S. military cyber defenders into an opportunity for more attacks. The Russian military hackers behind last year’s election meddling are using an upcoming cyber warfare conference in Washington D.C. as a lure to infect a new crop of victims with malware, [Cisco/Talos**] security researchers said Sunday, effectively turning a high-level gathering packed with NATO and U.S. military cyber defenders into an opportunity for more attacks... The new campaign by the hackers known as Fancy Bear and APT28 began in early October, when the hackers began spamming out a flier for next month’s International Conference on Cyber Conflict, or CyCon U.S. Hosted by the U.S. Army and a NATO cyber defense institute,... The Russian hackers’ flier for the event is a Microsoft Word document named “Conference_on_Cyber_Conflict.doc”.... Buried inside is a malicious macro that downloads and installs malware called Seduploader, a Fancy Bear reconnaissance program that lets the hackers take screenshots and gather basic system information to decide if the victim is worth spying on long-term..." https://www.thedailybeast.com/russi...ilybeast/articles (The Daily Beast - Latest A rticles%29 **Cisco/Talos' analysis: http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/10/cyber-conflict-decoy-document.html
And APT28 is FSB. This was pretty much conformed years ago with their CHOPSTICK backdoor. Why doesn't WikiLeaks say a peep about this?
