SNOWGLOBE, known also as APT29, Cozy Bear, and Midnight Blizzard, is a cyber espionage group attributed with high confidence to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Active since at least 2008, the group operates with notable patience and operational discipline, often maintaining long-term access to compromised networks without detection. Their primary motivation is to collect intelligence that supports Russian foreign policy interests rather than financial gain or disruption. A defining characteristic of SNOWGLOBE is its evolving tradecraft, which increasingly leverages legitimate cloud services and "living off the land" techniques to blend its activities into normal network traffic, thereby weakening traditional security models. This approach includes a notable shift from endpoint-centric persistence to targeting identity systems, such as OAuth applications and SAML token manipulation, to bypass multi-factor authentication and ensure enduring access. The group gained significa

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