Russian Intelligence Agencies and Cyber Operations #shorts

Not all companies that collaborate with uh Russian intelligence agencies are directly engaged in malicious operations. So you could think of concentric circle cycle uh at the center you have the intelligence agency and then you have the different um non-state actor that uh or bite uh that are in orbite around uh intelligence agencies. So the first circle uh you have um uh private uh companies. Um some of these private the companies engage with intelligence agencies in varying degrees. Um not all companies that collaborate with uh Russian uh intelligence agencies are directly engaged in malicious operations. Um you have also in beside uh IT companies and cyber security companies uh you have also uh private um public relation

companies uh that engage in information operation. Uh then another cycle and you have the activist group the pro-Russia activist group. Most of this group they emerge in the wake of uh the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and um Mandant has demonstrated that some of this group um and are collaborate with uh uh the GRU and uh more especially with AP44 um uh in some in some operation And um some of this group or some of the non actors they either ideologically align with Russia but other they just cooperate with the Russian intelligence agencies uh in in exchange for protection or tacid permission to continue to uh conduct uh financially motivated um operations. questions.