Russian spies buy congressional directories to hunt down targets, report says by JennaMC_Laugh
Each year in January, Russian intelligence operatives use a local cutout to order a number of copies of thick directories containing the names, job descriptions, email addresses and phone numbers of federal government and congressional employees.
The Baltic officials’ report includes a section on how the Russian foreign intelligence agency, the FSB, targets people using human, cyber and signals intelligence. According to the assessment, the FSB’s signals intelligence unit, similar to the National Security Agency in the United States, is called the 16th Center. That unit sweeps up communications worldwide, from “radio, satellite, telephone, mobile or data link communications.
The Russians use it “mostly for targeting purposes but also to fill holes in collection,” he continued. And in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, the open source data allowed Russians to target specific audiences for “active measures,” said Dannenberg. According to Rid, who is currently working on a book on the history of disinformation, it’s possible that Russia is “in a better position” to integrate open source intelligence with the other data the services gather. “The U.S. is historically not very good at this,” he said. “I think it’s remarkable that they missed the 2016 leak operation.”
However, according to the Estonian intelligence service, Russia is also focused on developing capabilities to break into “the communications of both domestic and foreign service providers.”
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