#Reward- $10 Million Bounty for Information on 6 Russian Military Hackers

 

The U.S. authorities on Tuesday introduced up to $10 million in rewards for statistics on six hackers related to the Russian navy intelligence service. 

 "These people participated in malicious cyber sports on behalf of the Russian authorities towards U.S. crucial infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act," the State Department`s Rewards for Justice Program said. 

 All the six Russian officials are participants of a sophisticated chronic risk organization known as Sandworm (aka Voodoo Bear or Iron Viking), which is thought to be running for the reason that as a minimum 2008 with a selected awareness on concentrated on entities in Ukraine with the aim of setting up an illicit, long-time period presence with a purpose to mine fantastically touchy data. 

 The hacker, who're officials of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU), are as follows -

• Artem Valeryevich Ochichenko, who has been linked to technical reconnaissance and spear-phishing campaigns to gain unauthorized access to IT networks of critical infrastructure facilities worldwide

• Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin, Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov, Pavel Valeryevich Frolov, and Yuriy Sergeyevich Andrienko, who are said to have developed components of the NotPetya and Olympic Destroyer malware used by the Russian government on June 27, 2017 to infect computer systems, and

• Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, who is accused of developing spear-phishing techniques and messages used by the Russian government to breach computer systems of critical infrastructure facilities

On October 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice charged the above officials with a destructive malware attack aimed at disrupting, destabilizing, and causing economic loss in other countries, and wire fraud. I was charged with a plot that committed a spoofing crime. As part of the 

 initiative, the Rewards of Justice has made Tor's website he5dybnt7sr6cm32xt77pazmtm65flqy6irivtflruqfc5ep7eiodiad [. ] Set to onion. This allows you to anonymously send tips about these threat actors  or  share them via Signal, Telegram,  WhatsApp. The 

  Sandworm Collective was the result of a sophisticated, neutralized botnet malware called CyclopsBlink that recently elicited Internet-connected firewall devices and routers from WatchGuard and ASUS.  Other recent hacking activities related to the 

 group include deploying an updated version of the Industroyer malware against Ukrainian high voltage substations in an ongoing intrusion.