been used as a proxy for Moonlight Maze. This was a huge breakthrough considering the long period of presumed inactivity (almost 20 years). They then used the server to spy on the threat actor, and were able to retrieve a complete log of the attackers code, with which after almost a year of thorough analysis, they were able to find a connection between rare Linux samples used by both Turla and Moonlight Maze (the code they shared was related to a backdoor used on LOKI 2, an information tunneling program released in 1996). See also 2020 United States federal government data breach Cyberwarfare by Russia GhostNet Operation Aurora Titan Rain References 1999 in the United States Cyberattacks Data breaches in the United States Hacker groups