
Fancy Bear, also known as Unit 26165, is a Russian cyber espionage group associated with the military intelligence agency GRU. Founded as early as 2004, Fancy Bear promoted the political interests of the United Russia government and launched cyberattacks on the German Bundestag, the French television station station TV5Monde, the White House, NATO, the American Democratic Party, the OSCE, and French president Emmanuel Macron in an attempt to weaken Russia's Western adversaries and/or bolster right-wing populist and Russophilic parties around the world.