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US indicts Russian intelligence officials

6/9/2024 6:13
        The U.S. on Thursday
        charged five Russian intelligence officials and a Russian
        civilian with conspiring to launch cyberattacks against Ukraine
        and its allies in a bid to hobble Ukraine.
        
        In a revised indictment unsealed on Thursday, the Justice
        Department said a cyber unit of Russia's military intelligence
        agency conducted "large-scale cyber operations" starting as far
        back as 2020, before Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
        
        The original indictment, filed in June in the U.S. District
        Court for the District of Maryland, only named a single
        defendant: Amin Stigal.
        
        It accused him of conspiring with Russia's military
        intelligence agency, known as the Main Intelligence Directorate
        of the General Staff, or GRU, to launch cyber attacks against
        computer systems in Ukraine and other countries, including a
        computer network maintained by an unnamed U.S. agency in
        Maryland.
        
        Thursday's news comes just one day after the U.S. took
        several legal actions against Russia to combat alleged efforts
        to meddle in the 2024 presidential elections, including charging
        two employees of the Russian state media network RT and
        sanctioning RT and its top network editor.
        
        It also came on the same day that the Justice Department
        announced it had secured two indictments against Russian TV
        contributor Dimitri Simes and his wife over sanctions violations
        and money laundering.
        
        Earlier on Thursday, intelligence agencies in the U.S. and
        the United Kingdom warned that a cyber espionage group located
        within Russia's GRU known as "Unit 29155" was destructively
        targeting critical national infrastructure.
        
        Unit 29155, which is the group at the heart of Thursday's
        indictment, is a covert part of the GRU which carries out
        subversion, sabotage and assassination missions outside Russia,
        Western officials told Reuters.
        



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