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New: Fancy Bear hacking group targeted 200+ journalists over past three years. Some received phishing emails only a few months ago. apnews.com/c3b26c647e7940…

New: 50 journalists from The New York Times were targeted by Fancy Bear in late 2014. Unclear what game of the phishing attempts.
apnews.com/c3b26c647e7940…

Hackers targeted journalists including reporters working for @tvrain, @Vedomosti and @novaya_gazeta - as well as TV personalities such as @xenia_sobchak and @tina_kandelaki.
apnews.com/c3b26c647e7940…

The 200+ journalists on our list are only those we could identify; true number of media targets likely higher. Perhaps much higher.

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Many Ukrainian journalists on the hacker hit list, including several who work at the @KyivPost, @Hromadske and @en_informnapalm
apnews.com/c3b26c647e7940…

Investigative reporter Roman Shleynov says he was targeted at an email address he used very rarely & only for one story: The Panama Papers.
apnews.com/c3b26c647e7940…

(cc: @AndreiSoldatov)

AP: хакеры из Fancy Bear атаковали американских журналистов
kommersant.ru/doc/3505724

Our investigation of Fancy Bear's attempts to spy on journalists is the 4th major story in the @AP's series on the hacking group.

Previous coverage here:
apnews.com/3bca5267d45445…
Here:
apnews.com/dea73efc015948…
& here:
apnews.com/f1a5570b7ce04d…

There's plenty of interesting stuff I've found along the way, not all of which has made it into copy. One of the aspects I've found most fun is cataloging Fancy Bear's various mistakes:
medium.com/@rsatter/fumbl…

Are you a reporter that covers the intel community? Hackers may be trying to look over your shoulder. Evidence shows Fancy Bear tried to spy on a host of US national security-focused journalists:

@joshrogin
@shaneharris
@michaeldweiss
& others

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My conversations with US national security reporters suggests they’re all quite careful but it’s illuminating to see who Fancy Bear takes an interest in even if there’s no evidence they were compromised.
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Many journalists I spoke actually saw their targeting as a perverse kind of validation.
“It’s a fucking badge of honor,” is what one told me. Others, like @jkirchick, were more PG13:
apnews.com/c3b26c647e7940…