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DOJ Indicts Russian Gov’t Employees Over Targeting Power Sector
The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ has indicted four Russian government employees in connection to plots to cyber-fry critical infrastructure in the United States and beyond, including at least one nuclear power plant. The campaigns involved one of the most dangerous malwares ever encountered in...
FSB Officers, Criminal Hackers Indicted in Yahoo Breach
The U.S. Department of Justice today indicted four individuals, including two Russian FSB officers, it alleges are connected to a massive breach of Yahoo’s network and the theft of information associated with 500 million accounts. One of the men, Karim Baratov, 22, was arrested March 14 in Canada...
US Charges Two Russian Spies & Two Hackers For Hacking 500 Million Yahoo Accounts
The 2014 Yahoo hack disclosed late last year that compromised over 500 million Yahoo user accounts was believed to be carried out by a state-sponsored hacking group. Now, two Russian intelligence officers and two criminal hackers have been charged by the US government in connection with the 2014...