Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
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Re: Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
#2Interesting details:
> These GRU hackers and their co-conspirators engaged in computer intrusions and attacks intended to support Russian government efforts to undermine, retaliate against, or otherwise destabilize: (1) Ukraine; (2) Georgia; (3) elections in France; (4) efforts to hold Russia accountable for its use of a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok, on foreign soil; and (5) the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games after Russian athletes were banned from participating under their nation’s flag, as a consequence of Russian government-sponsored doping effort.
Re: Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
#3> The department is also grateful to Google, including its Threat Analysis Group (TAG); Cisco, including its Talos Intelligence Group; Facebook; and Twitter, for the assistance they provided in this investigation.
Re: Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
#4Can someone explain how individuals are identified when we are talking about state sponsored hackers?
Re: Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
#5Keeping this to post under all those comments saying there was nothing to "Russiagate".
Re: Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
#6Keeping this to post under all those comments saying there was nothing to "Russiagate".
> Keeping this to post under all those comments saying there was nothing to "Russiagate".
Perhaps I haven't had enough coffee yet, but I'm having trouble parsing your comment. Would you be willing to say it differently?
Re: Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
#7Can someone explain how individuals are identified when we are talking about state sponsored hackers?
By detractors? By cyberattacks? Good old espionage?
Re: Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
#8Can someone explain how individuals are identified when we are talking about state sponsored hackers?
I have wondered about the same.
Re: Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
#9Keeping this to post under all those comments saying there was nothing to "Russiagate".
A press release for indictments for people you're never going to arrest or have a trial for is nothing more than propaganda.
If they actually cared about catching these people, they'd keep the indictments secret so that they might go to a country that has an extradition treaty with the US.
Re: Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware
#10Interesting details: > These GRU hackers and their co-conspirators engaged in computer intrusions and attacks intended to support Russian government efforts to undermine, retaliate against, or otherwise destabilize: (1) Ukraine; (2) Georgia; (3) elections in France; (4) efforts to hold Russia accountable for its use of a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok, on foreign soil; and (5) the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic…
Is this clear from the evidence or are these the allegations against them?