{"id":252712,"date":"2026-05-22T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/putin-appoints-rostec-cybersecurity-specialist-linked-to-gru-hackers-from-fancy-bear-as-aide-to-sergei-shoigu-in-russias-security-council\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:50:14","slug":"putin-appoints-rostec-cybersecurity-specialist-linked-to-gru-hackers-from-fancy-bear-as-aide-to-sergei-shoigu-in-russias-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/putin-appoints-rostec-cybersecurity-specialist-linked-to-gru-hackers-from-fancy-bear-as-aide-to-sergei-shoigu-in-russias-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin appoints Rostec cybersecurity specialist linked to GRU hackers from Fancy Bear as aide to Sergei Shoigu in Russia\u2019s Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theins.press\/en\/news\/292888\">Putin appoints Rostec cybersecurity specialist linked to GRU hackers from Fancy Bear as aide to Sergei Shoigu in Russia\u2019s Security Council<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theins.press\/en\/news\/292888\">https:\/\/theins.press\/en\/news\/292888<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 14:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theins.press\">theins.press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin has\u00a0appointed Andrei Kozlov as an aide to the secretary of Russia\u2019s Security Council, former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Kozlov comes from cybersecurity structures linked to the state defense corporation Rostec and, according to leaked data, held a classified security clearance issued through Military Unit 26165. He succeeded General Pavel Konovalchik, who held the post until March and was also linked to the same GRU unit.\u00a0The Insider\u00a0previously\u00a0established that Military Unit 26165 is connected to the hacker group Fancy Bear\/APT28, which has been\u00a0accused of hacking the Emmanuel Macron campaign\u2019s headquarters, the U.S. Democratic Party, NATO, WADA, and Russian journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The Insider confirmed that the newly appointed aide to the Security Council secretary is Andrei Gennadyevich Kozlov, who was previously linked to information security structures close to Russian state defense corporation Rostec. A woman who answered a phone number listed in corporate registries confirmed Kozlov\u2019s appointment and said she would forward\u00a0The Insider\u2019s request for clarification about his biography.<\/p>\n<p>According to the records in the corporate database <span class=\"tooltip-term\" data-term=\"SPARK\" data-description=\"\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:-5px;\">SPARK is a Russian corporate and financial database, formally SPARK-Interfax, run by the Interfax news agency.\u00a0It aggregates data on companies, executives, shareholders, court cases, financial statements, tenders, bankruptcies, as well as multiple other data points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; tabindex=&#8221;0&#8243; role=&#8221;button&#8221; aria-label=&#8221;SPARK&#8221;SPARK<\/span>, Kozlov headed the RUSIB Association, which brings together organizations working in information security, from May 2024 to April 2026. Earlier, in November and December 2022, he served as acting general director of RT-Information Security, or RT-IB, previously known as IB Reform. The company is Rostec\u2019s cybersecurity center and is responsible for protecting the state corporation\u2019s information systems and those of its affiliated organizations.<\/p>\n<p>RT-IB\u00a0describes itself as a directly managed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theins.press\/en\/news\/292888\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin appoints Rostec cybersecurity specialist linked to GRU hackers from Fancy Bear as aide to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/theins.press\/storage\/share\/292\/292888\/pjSdu2FtjsTxDuZQeNwGHaZ8nNrquvZY78wY8v5E.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[96,57],"class_list":["post-252712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-hackerexploit","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252714,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252712\/revisions\/252714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}