The US Ministry of Justice brought charges of cyberataki to seven GRU agents

The US Ministry of Justice in absentia brought to seven agents of the Russian GRU the accusations of cyberataki. The broadcast of the press conference given by the prosecutor's office, the FBI and the Canadian police was conducted on the Ministry of Justice’s website; Its text decryption is available on the Internet.

In the indictment, the names of the agents are given . This is Ivan Ermakov, Artem Malyshev, Dmitry Badin, Alexey Moreene, Evgeny Serebryakov, Oleg Sotnikov and Alexei Minin. The first three have already been accused in July of this year by a large jury of the jury as persons involved in the hacking of the headquarters of Hillary Clinton's headquarters during the 2016 presidential campaign. This episode is not investigated by the Ministry of Justice, but by the commission of the special prosecutor Robert Muller.

The remaining four agents were first mentioned earlier on October 4 at a press conference in the Hague as agents who prepared a hacker attack on the organization to prohibit chemical weapons and tried to steal the case materials about the strike on the Malaysian Boeing-777.

One part of the episodes is associated with the state doping program of Russia. The agents were imputed by cyber attacks on the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA), a sports arbitration court, the American anti -doping agency, the Canadian Center for Sports Ethics and the International Association of athletics federations (IAAF). An attack on the International Football Federation (FIFA) adjoins the same group.

The second group of episodes is attacks on the OPCU and the laboratory of radiological and chemical -radiological analysis in the Swiss city of Spitz, which the OPCO attracted to the investigation of the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The same group includes a cyber attack on Westinghouse Electric Corporation - a company from Pennsylvania, which works in the field of nuclear energy.

As part of the investigation of the FBI case, on the basis of the decisions of the Western District of Pennsylvania issued on October 3, the domain names Fancybears.net and Fancybears.org, which belongs to the breast group of Fancy Bear (are also known by other names, in particular APT28).

On Thursday morning, the head of the British Foreign Ministry Jeremy Hunt accused the GRU of impudent and indistinct attacks around the world . “They are ready to damage even Russian companies and Russian citizens,” the minister said.

In a similar way later, after a press conference in the Hague, the Prime Ministers of the Netherlands Mark Rutte and Britain Teresa May performed. "The GRU conducts reckless operations - from destructive cyber attacks to attacks using chemical weapons," the heads of the two governments said in a joint statement. An attempt to hack the OPCW computer network and attacks on other international organizations Rutta and May regarded shares aimed at global destabilization.