GRU Hacking Unit 26165 aka “Fancy Bear”, Operation Pawn Storm, APT28

85^th Special Service Center

20 Komsomolskiy Prospekt
(same location for Military Unit 06410-152^nd Training Center)
also site for GRU-Service of Decryption-Original 26165-Created
Related to Sixth Directorate (SIGINT)

The Unit is commanded by Koval Nikolay Nesterovich. The Unit was created on August 27, 1943. It was not conceived as a cyber field.

Up to 2018, Viktor Borisovich Netyksho was the Chief Colonel.
Commander for 26165-Col. Dmitry Alexandrovich Mikhailov.

The 26165, has two units
CNE-Computer Network Exploitation-Espionage-Recon Operations- Steal Data from System, Obtain intelligence about network.
See: Flame-Massive spy tool
See: Regin – European Commission – Belgium’s Belgacom-GCHQ

CNA-Damage, destroy, disrupt

Ukraine December 2015
TV5Monde

Unit 26165 Members
Aleksei Sergeyevich Morenets
Evgenii Mikhaylovich Serebriakov
Accused by Dutch – With Unit 22177 members