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Moscow Tech University’s Secret Dept 4 Feeds GRU Cyber Units

5/7/2026

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Bauman Moscow State Technical University runs a covert Department 4 that merges academic courses with direct GRU recruitment and training.
The curriculum teaches hacking, surveillance hardware and disinformation, describes devices like a camera-hidden smoke detector and a keystroke-recording keyboard, and frames the Ukraine war as inevitable.
Graduates join elite GRU units such as Fancy Bear and Sandworm, while dozens of students were dismissed for insufficient cyber-attack skills.

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Story summary

Bauman Moscow State Technical University runs a covert Department 4 that merges academic courses with direct GRU recruitment and training.
The curriculum teaches hacking, surveillance hardware and disinformation, describes devices like a camera-hidden smoke detector and a keystroke-recording keyboard, and frames the Ukraine war as inevitable.
Graduates join elite GRU units such as Fancy Bear and Sandworm, while dozens of students were dismissed for insufficient cyber-attack skills.