Russian Intel Agency FSB’s contractor hacked; sensitive data leaked online

Russian Intel Agency FSB’s contractor hacked; sensitive data leaked online

The alleged documents leaked by hackers detail the Fronton project citing Mirai malware and the FSB’s plan to hack IoT devices.


Globally, intelligence organizations are notorious for overstepping their constitutional boundaries breaching the privacy of citizens in the process. While the NSA seems to be the pallbearer of such activities, Russia’s FSB is no different.


This has been recently proven so by a Russian group named Digital Revolution that alleges to have hacked an FSB contractor –  the Kvant Research Institute – learning about a program called Fronton in which the prime target is hacking the Internet of Things (IoT) devices on a global level.

A tweet from the group posted on March 18th:



Почему наше собственное правительство шпионит за нами через IoT? По сути, шпионит за всем миром. Как это им удается? #ФРОНТОН https://t.co/1Ju6Wlef9Bhttps://t.co/i44eSY5CvL pic.twitter.com/rBEdAElcpP


— DigitalRevolution (@D1G1R3V) March 18, 2020


Tweet translated: Why is our own government spying on us through the IoT? In fact, spies on the whole world. How do they do it? 


A look at the official website of hackers, the text translated from the Russian language claims that.



We can prove that Kremlin henchmen crack our computers and spy on us Why is our own government spying on us through the IoT ..

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