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Russian State Cyber Orgs

- Federal Security Service (FSB, formerly KGB) Leads coordination of cyber propaganda and disinformation.  Maintains states internal cyber surveillance system.
    • System for Operative Investigative Activities (SORM,  COPM in russian)
        ◦ Developed 1995 as ‘lawful Intercept’ systsem of telcom data
        ◦ expanded to ISP and web companies who were “compelled” to install SORM equipment to all intercept of data
        ◦ Gov agencies and police can access citizens’ private data
        ◦ Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) russias largest telecom maintained by nokia
        ◦ “Nokia says it provides — and its engineers install — the “port” in the network to allow lawful intercept equipment to plug in and intercept data pursuant to a court order, but denied storing, analyzing or processing intercepted data.”
        ◦ Info obtained in nokia leak by employee
        ◦ reporedly performs deep packet inspection
        ◦ provides interception capabilities of data traversing Russian territory


https://www.cna.org/cna_files/pdf/DOP-2016-U-014231-1Rev.pdf
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/russia-sorm-nokia-surveillance/
https://www.upguard.com/breaches/mts-nokia-telecom-inventory-data-exposure