Litwin
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Great News!I say bomb Nigeria in snow with Iranian oil- gas sanctions! question: which side will take D. Trump this time, FBI or Ozero&KGB?
"US charges six Russian military (GRU) officers over cyberattacks
Six Russian military officers sought to disrupt through computer hacking the French election, the Winter Olympic Games and US businesses, according to a Justice Department indictment unsealed on Monday that details attacks on a broad range of political, financial and athletic targets.
The indictment also accuses the defendants, all alleged officers in the Russian military agency known as the GRU, of destructive attacks on Ukraine’s power grid and of a hack-and-leak effort directed at the political party of French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2017 election.
attacks that prosecutors said were aimed at promoting Russian’s own geopolitical interests. Those include cyberattacks that targeted the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, where Russian athletes were banned because of a state-sponsored doping effort.
“No country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously or irresponsibly as Russia, wantonly causing unprecedented damage to pursue small tactical advantages and to satisfy fits of spite,” said Assistant Attorney General John Demers, the Justice Department’s top national security official.
He called it “the most disruptive and destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group”.
British officials joined their US counterparts in accusing Russian military officers, saying the GRU hackers had also conducted “cyber reconnaissance” operations against organisers of the 2020 Tokyo Games, which were originally scheduled to be held this year but postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak in Japan.
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"US charges six Russian military (GRU) officers over cyberattacks
Six Russian military officers sought to disrupt through computer hacking the French election, the Winter Olympic Games and US businesses, according to a Justice Department indictment unsealed on Monday that details attacks on a broad range of political, financial and athletic targets.
The indictment also accuses the defendants, all alleged officers in the Russian military agency known as the GRU, of destructive attacks on Ukraine’s power grid and of a hack-and-leak effort directed at the political party of French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2017 election.
attacks that prosecutors said were aimed at promoting Russian’s own geopolitical interests. Those include cyberattacks that targeted the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, where Russian athletes were banned because of a state-sponsored doping effort.
“No country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously or irresponsibly as Russia, wantonly causing unprecedented damage to pursue small tactical advantages and to satisfy fits of spite,” said Assistant Attorney General John Demers, the Justice Department’s top national security official.
He called it “the most disruptive and destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group”.
British officials joined their US counterparts in accusing Russian military officers, saying the GRU hackers had also conducted “cyber reconnaissance” operations against organisers of the 2020 Tokyo Games, which were originally scheduled to be held this year but postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak in Japan.
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US charges six Russian military officers over cyberattacks
US accuses alleged GRU officials of cyberattacks on the Olympic Games, US businesses and French election.
www.aljazeera.com