U.S. Charges Russian GRU Officers with International Hacking and Related Influence and Disinformation Operations

A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted seven defendants, all officers in the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), a military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, for computer hacking, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering. According to the indictment, beginning in or around December 2014 and

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“The indictment alleges that defendants Yermakov, Malyshev, Badin, & unidentified conspirators, often using fictitious personas and proxy servers, researched victims, sent spearphishing emails, & compiled, used, and monitored malware command and control servers. When the conspirators’ remote(