The cybersecurity firm tasked with investigating the hack of the Democratic National Committee has published a new report claiming that the group that hit the DNC also targeted Ukrainian military units. This connection increases the likelihood that the hackers — dubbed Fancy Bear by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike — are a unit working for Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU.

The possible link between the GRU and Fancy Bear was made by tracking a piece of malware implanted in a Ukrainian military Android app. The app allows Soviet-era artillery units to process targeting data more quickly, while the implanted malware was found to siphon off communication and location data. CrowdStrike suggests the malware “may have facilitated…

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