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The US State Department is awarding $ 10 million for information to six employees of the General Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The Diplomatic Security Service is looking for them for their role in a criminal conspiracy involving malicious cyber activities affecting critical US infrastructure.
GRU officers Yuri Sergeyevich Andrienko, Sergei Vladimirovich Detistov, Pavel Valerievich Frolov, Anatoly Sergeyevich Kovalev, Artem Valerievich Ochimchenko, Artem Petr Nikolaevich Pliskin were members of a group that deployed destructive malware and took other illegal strategies. through unauthorized access to computers, the official statement said.
All six work in GRU Division 74455, also known as cybersecurity researchers such as Sandworm Team, Telebot, Voodoo Bear and Iron Viking. nova.bg.
The suspects were members of the criminal group responsible for infecting computers with malware on June 27, 2017 in the United States and around the world using malware known as NotPetya. These cyber intrusions damaged the computers of hospitals and other medical facilities in the health care system of Western Pennsylvania, a large pharmaceutical manufacturer in the United States, and other legal entities in the US private sector. Losses from malicious cyber activities to US organizations are estimated at nearly $ 1 billion in losses.
On October 15, 2020, a federal jury charged six Russian officers with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, damage to secure computers and identity theft.
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