Massive trove of Russian spy-agency docs hacked from private sector contractor and passed onto media
Mentor was allegedly being developed for the Russian military unit No. 71330, which is reportedly the radio-electronic intelligence of the FSB of Russia. This project would monitor selected email accounts at specified intervals in order to collect information related to certain phrases. Nadezhda, or Hope in English, is a project designed to visualize how Russia is connected to the rest of the Internet. This research is part of Russia's attempts to create a "sovereign Internet" where Russia can isolate itself from the rest of the Internet. Nautilus is a project developed between 2009 and 2010 to collect information about users on social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace. Nautilus-S is research into de-anonymizing users on the Tor network by creating exit nodes that were controlled by the Russian government. This project was allegedly started at the request of the Russian Research Institute "Kvant".
Russian FSB Intel Agency Contractor Hacked, Secret Projects Exposed [Lawrence Abrams/Bleeping Computer] Москит, Надежда, Наутилус: хакеры раскрыли суть проектов тайного подрядчика ФСБ [Андрей Сошников and Светлана Рейтер/BBC Russia]