There are a number of good reasons to suspect Russian involvement. It is its own thing, and we think it should be evaluated as such. 'We don't see any overlaps between UNC1151 or the Ghostwriter activity and other cyber espionage information operations that have been publicly attributed to Russia.

The technical support that you're getting from this group we have tied with high confidence.' 'Ghostwriter is tied to Belarus with moderate confidence,' Read said. MandiantвЂ™s Ben Read, senior manager for cyber espionage analysis, and Gabby Roncone, technical threat intelligence analyst, said they couldn't rule out Russia's involvement entirely. Mandiant also concluded that UNC1151 provides technical support to an information operations campaign known as Ghostwriter, which has fostered narratives consistent with Belarusian government interests, including anti-NATO messaging. The biggest news to come out of Cyberwarcon was the revelation that Mandiant's Threat Intelligence Group linked state-sponsored espionage group UNC1151, previously tied by researchers to Russia, to the Belarusian government.

'We want you to think maybe it's that billionaire who's been in the news, maybe it's that K Street lobbying firm, maybe it's even that disgruntled former spouse.'Д«elarus and not Russia is behind the Ghostwriter campaign

'When you guys discover a hack and leak operation down the line, I don't just want you to think it's Russia or it's North Korea or even India,' Bing said. One target of Delhi-based BellTrox was Iranian-American aviation tycoon Farhad Azima, whose emails were stolen by the company and used against him during litigation. Working for outfits such as Appin Security Labs and BellTrox, these hackers target lawyers, activists, executives, investors, pharmaceutical companies, energy firms, asset management companies, offshore banking entities, and high net worth individuals. Reuters journalists Chris Bing and Raphael Satter recapped at the recent Cyberwarcon event their ongoing investigation of a loose collective of Indian hackers that blur the lines between reputation management firms and outright hacking-for-hire services.

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