Dear GRU, a bit dumb to try to phish-hack exactly the journos who just outed your largest black-op ever. You might have waited a day or two. And generally you might improve your phishing tradecraft. A .ru hop-over server? Bumbling idiots.

Yeah, keep them coming :)

Am I officially allowed now to hack back into GRU accounts?

So far do good, I am getting Putin's electoral result in Chechnya.

Meantime, a special shout-out to the GRU colonel who set up a password reminder question "My mother's maiden name", but because he has no registered father, that's also his last name....

Oh no, GRU killer with username destroyer2015@****, your security question is **check screen** your parents' zip code?
Oh no, not your parents postal code...how will I ever guess that. What's that, your parents still live with you?

GRU Maj. General:
"Hm... there's NO fucking way they can guess moskva4"

Yes, sure, Colonel, signing up for Runtastic under your cover name is a great idea...this way you, and only you, will know where you're running while on assignment in Geneva.

..and my favorite phishing mail by far.. received by a colleague. Sadly it's so bad that it can't be a state actor ...

"Hm... He's been making fun of our terrible email phishing tricks. Any ideas how to respond?"
"How about a terrible phishing attack via @telegram?"
"Great idea! You're a colonel now"

Multichannel marketing ftw