The United States has indicted five Russian agents and a civilian on charges that they conspired to launch cyberattacks on Ukraine and its allies.
In the revised indictment released today, the US Department of Justice says a unit of the Russian military’s intelligence agency (GRU) conducted “large-scale cyber operations” starting in 2020, before Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The original indictment, filed in June in the District Court of Maryland, named only one suspect, Amin Stigall. The man allegedly worked with the GRU to launch cyberattacks on computer networks in Ukraine and other countries – including a network of an unnamed US agency in Maryland.
The US yesterday prosecuted or sanctioned several Russian citizens and entities, including state broadcaster RT, on the grounds that they interfered in the presidential election. Earlier today, the Justice Department announced that Russian TV anchor Dmitry Simes and his wife were being prosecuted for money laundering and sanctions violations.
Intelligence services in the US and Britain had warned that a GRU cyber espionage group, called “Unit 29155”, was targeting and destroying critical infrastructure. Unit 29155, the subject of today’s prosecution, is a secret GRU group that undertakes subversion, sabotage and assassination missions outside Russia, according to Western officials who spoke to Reuters.
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