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U.S. charges 4 Russian government workers with hacking energy sector:
The U.S. Justice Department fired another legal salvo against Russia on Thursday, announcing indictments against four Russian government employees for an alleged hacking campaign targeting the energy sector that lasted for years and targeted computers in 135 countries.
An indictment in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charges that Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh, who worked at a Russian Ministry of Defense research institute, conspired with others to damage critical infrastructure outside the United States, causing emergency shutdowns at one foreign facility. Thosecharged in the indictment, under seal since June 2021, also allegedly tried to hack the computers of a U.S. firm that managed similar facilities in the United States.
A separate indictment filed in Kansas alleges that a hacking campaign launched by Russian's federal security service, or FSB, targeted computers at hundreds of energy-related entities around the world. That indictment was also filed under seal last summer.
The hacking activity took place between 2012 and 2018, U.S. officials said. The decision to reveal the indictments underscores the concern U.S. and European officials have about Russia unleashing a wave of cyberattacks on the West in response to a new wave of sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco said there is an "urgent ongoing need for American businesses to harden their defenses and remain vigilant." She said Russian state-sponsored hackers "pose a serious and persistent threat to critical infrastructure both in the United States and around the world."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 29 2022, @12:18AM (2 children)
Yes. Your principles, more precisely.
1. Your critical infrastructure is private
2. nobody tell a private entity how to run their business
Add to this the insurance industry(which is reactive, needs incidents to update the risks) and there you are.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 29 2022, @01:05AM (1 child)
Ahhhhhh, but, infrastructure isn't private. Never has been, never will be. Government regulates infrastructure, government awards monopolistic business licenses to run that infrastructure, tax dollars support infrastructure in a myriad of ways. Electricity, among other infrastructure, is a strategic asset. Government has all the authority in the world to regulate strategic assets.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 29 2022, @11:08AM
Except, of course, when it doesn't have all that authority, such as in constitutionally bound governments.