Actors & Networks
The organizations, agencies, outlets, and networks behind documented operations — with attribution and its confidence level.
GRU Unit 26165 (APT28 / Fancy Bear)
A unit of Russian military intelligence (GRU) that U.S. authorities attribute the 2016 hacking of the DNC, DCCC and Clinton-campaign accounts to; twelve named GRU officers were indicted in July 2018.
Internet Research Agency (IRA)
A St. Petersburg “troll farm” funded through Yevgeny Prigozhin-linked Concord entities, indicted by the U.S. Special Counsel in 2018 and found by a bipartisan Senate investigation to have run a covert social-media influence operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election.
Social Design Agency (SDA)
A Moscow public-relations firm identified by France’s VIGINUM, the U.S. Justice Department and EU sanctions as an operator of the Doppelganger information-manipulation campaign.