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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: 3, Touché) by Reziac on Tuesday March 29 2022, @02:31AM (3 children)
Word was back when the mob ran Reno, you could literally do that, and come back to find your bags still there.
I'm not sure what that says about our infrastructure, except... maybe we should be run by smarter mobsters. ;P
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 29 2022, @02:54AM
That's worth a chuckle. Petty thieves rounded up, brought into a conference room surrounded by 15 guys with Tommy guns. Yeah, they understand clearly that the penalty for infringing on the Mob's territory is death.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday March 29 2022, @04:51PM (1 child)
I do not know about Reno. However that was true in Las Vegas prior to the 1980s.
Now the city has gangs from California. Back in the day the mob would never have allowed that to happen. Makes the city less attractive for business.
While Republicans can get over Trump's sexual assaults, affairs, and vulgarity; they cannot get over Obama being black.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday March 29 2022, @05:26PM
Good example of better the devil you know.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.