Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials

Leaked Bauman training materials describe how Russian institutions (including GRU Department No.4) formalize recruitment and technical/ideological training that feeds cyber intelligence and offensive units, with reporting linking graduates to units like Sandworm (associated with NotPetya). The leak reframes Russia’s cyber capability as an institutional system and provides researchers and defenders with insights into personnel pipelines, overlapping doctrine, and the need to track combined threat activities across espionage, destructive cyber operations, reconnaissance, and influence campaigns.