It'd be kind of weird if they were state backed given that they run websites with their own name and use cheap Anonymous slogans: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat

It'd be kind of weird if they were state backed given that they run websites with their own name and use cheap Anonymous slogans: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37374053/what-we-know-about-fancy-bears-hack-team http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37374053/what-we-know-... Russian - would make a lot of sense. Run by the government? Seems more like the sort of approach I'd expect from a bunch of kids who got bored of spamming/malware and got political. Phishing isn't really an advanced technique by intelligence agency standards.