title: The Attribution Story of WhisperGate: An Academic Perspective
abstract: This paper explores the challenges of cyberattack attribution, specifically APTs, applying the case study approach for the WhisperGate cyber operation of January 2022 executed by the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) and targeting Ukrainian government entities. The study provides a detailed review of the threat actor identifiers and taxonomies used by leading cybersecurity vendors, focusing on the evolving attribution from Microsoft, ESET, and CrowdStrike researchers. Once the attribut
journal: ArXiv.org