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According to the US Department of Justice, Russian GRU officials are involved in hacker attacks on companies in the United States, Ukraine’s energy system, as well as participants in the 2017 presidential elections in France.
The US Department of Justice has prosecuted six current and former members of the Intelligence Department of the Intelligence Department for carrying out cyberattacks on targets in the United States, France, Ukraine and South Korea. This is stated in a statement from the United States Department of Justice, published on October 19.
According to the agency, GRU officials are involved in hacker attacks against companies in the United States, Ukraine’s energy system, organizers of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, and participants in the presidential elections of 2017 in France, including current French President Emmanuel Macron.
The Ministry of Justice believes that the suspects were behind the creation of some of the “most destructive malware in the world”: the virus that shut down Ukraine’s power grid in December 2015, as well as the NotPetya ransomware virus in 2017.
“No country is as deliberately and irresponsibly weaponizing its cyber potential as Russia is doing, unnecessarily inflicting unprecedented damage to gain a small tactical advantage,” said John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
In recent years, hackers operating from or supported by this country have been accused of cyberattacks against government agencies in the United States, Ukraine, France, Germany, Great Britain, Latvia and the Netherlands. .
In 2017, with the help of the NotPetya ransomware virus, hackers, probably associated with Russia, crippled the work of computer networks in banks, media outlets, commercial organizations, postal services, and government agencies around the world.
The Ukrainian company “Prykarpatyeoblenergo” on December 23, 2015 announced a power outage in Ivano-Frankivsk and part of the region. The cause of the accident was the interference of unauthorized persons in the work of the telemechanics. The problems were eliminated the same day. It later emerged that the cyberattack was larger than initially reported. Malicious software was detected in at least two companies, in addition to Prykarpattyaoblenergo, whose power grids it managed to disable. The Ukrainian security service blamed Russian special services for the incident.
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