Vulkan files leak
The Vulkan files are a leaked set of emails, and other documents, implicating the Russian company NTC Vulkan (Russian: НТЦ Вулкан) in acts of cybercrime, political interference in foreign affairs (such as in the 2016 United States presidential election) through social media, censorship of domestic social media, and espionage, in collusion with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), their armed forces (GOU and GRU); and Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).[1] The documents, numbering in their thousands, were leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung within days of the 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by a whistleblower who opposed that war,[1] and were analysed by journalists from that publication and The Guardian, Le Monde and Washington Post, with several other media outlets, as part of a consortium led by Paper Trail Media and Der Spiegel.[1][3] Vulkan was contracted to write software called Scan-V to support searching for weak spots in systems to be targeted.[1] The documents link Vulkan to the Cozy Bear hacker group, according to Google researchers.[1][8] In 2018 some employees went in connection to Amezit to Rostov-on-Don to visit the Radio Research Institute, which is linked to the Federal Security Service.