A Russian defence contractor sought to acquire electronics from two Canadian companies in a broader plan to skirt international sanctions and make weapons for the war in Ukraine, according to a leaked intelligence cache provided to CBC News.
Activist hackers who call themselves the Cyber Resistance and are linked to secretive sections of the Ukrainian government, exfiltrated data from the email account of an employee at St. Petersburg-based arms company Special Technology Center (STC), a supplier of unmanned aerial vehicles and weapons to the Russian war effort in Ukraine.
The cache contains internal STC documents, company emails, contracts worth millions of rubles and