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The US State Department accused Russia of being one of the main disruptors of the Internet, after six members of the Russian military intelligence were accused of launching cyber attacks; Which Moscow denies and rejects.
The US State Department stated that it upholds cyberspace stability and called on countries seeking more cyber stability to help arrest Russian suspects.
For his part, the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, confirmed in a tweet on “Twitter” the determination of his country to hold Russia responsible for its harmful actions in cyberspace.
Pompeo noted that Russian military electronic operators broke Ukraine’s power grid, attacked the 2018 Olympics and unleashed the NOTPETYA virus, describing it as the most destructive in history.
The US Department of Justice accused 6 Russian military intelligence agents of launching cyberattacks, including those targeting the electricity grid in Ukraine, the elections in France in 2017 and the Olympics in 2018.
“The indictment is directed at Russia for using its electronic capabilities to destabilize and interfere with the political and economic systems of other countries,” said John Demers, a national security official for the US Department of Justice. “This reminds us that their initiatives are nothing more than dishonest speech and cheap, sarcastic propaganda.”
Demers added: “The defendants also supported a hacking operation in the days leading up to the 2017 French elections.”
These hackers are accused of running their operations between 2015 and 2019. Their first operation was an attack on Ukraine’s electricity grid, which left residents without heating for the winter.
They are suspected of subsequently launching an attack with the “Not Petia” virus in June 2017, which infected thousands of computers around the world, disrupting functional infrastructure, such as the means to monitor the site of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl and the ports of Bombay and Amsterdam.
In 2018, the Winter Olympics that took place in South Korea were targeted, in the absence of the Russian delegation, which was unable to participate after being accused of doping.
On the other hand, the Russian Embassy in Washington denied the accusations of the United States Department of Justice against 6 Russian citizens of launching cyberattacks on infrastructure in several countries, including the United States, stressing that there is no basis in the truth.
A spokesman for the Russian embassy told Sputnik that such news has nothing to do with reality, and only aims to launch a campaign to pursue the mania of espionage, and this is what has characterized the political life of Washington for several years, as he said.
The Russian spokesman accused the US authorities of constantly working to destroy common relations and artificially impose on its residents a toxic perception about Russia and everything related to it.
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