$10 million reward offered for location of six Russian military hackers
a reward of up to $10 million
for information that leads to the"identification or location" of six Russian GRU hackers. The six named individuals, all officers within the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation , are sought for their alleged involvement in malicious cyber activity affecting U.S. critical infrastructure, the announcement stated.
The six, named by the Department of State as Yuriy Sergeyevich Andrienko, Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov, Pavel Valeryevich Frolov, Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, Artem Valeryevich Ochichenko and Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin, were said to be part of GRU Unit 74455. This unit is perhaps better known as Sandworm, the hacking group behind thein 2017 which resulted in losses of nearly $1 billion according to the Department of State's press release.
A federal grand jury in 2020 indicted the six Russian GRU officers on counts including conspiracy to conduct computer fraud, damaging protected computers and aggravated identify theft.
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