There’s an update to the case of Vitalii Antonenko, whose case was noted on this site in 2020. Shore News Network reports: Vitalii Antonenko, a 32-year-old New York City resident, pleaded guilty on Thursday to multiple conspiracies involving computer hacking, trafficking stolen credit card information, and laundering the illicit proceeds. Antonenko entered his guilty plea…
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Russian Military Cyber Actors Target U.S. and Global Critical Infrastructure
From a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) assess that cyber actors affiliated with the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155) are responsible for computer network operations against global targets for the purposes…
Free Russia Foundation to investigate data breach after internal documents published online
Novaya Gazeta Europe reports: One of Russia’s most prominent pro-democracy organisations, the Free Russia Foundation, announced that it was investigating a potential cyberattack on Friday, following a leak of thousands of emails and documents related to its work. On Thursday, Telegram channel SOTA reported that “more than 2,500 email chains and more than 13GB of…
Russian military hackers linked to critical infrastructure attacks
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The United States and its allies have linked a group of Russian hackers (tracked as Cadet Blizzard and Ember Bear) behind global critical infrastructure attacks to Unit 29155 of Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known as GRU). In a joint advisory published today, the Russian GRU military intelligence hackers,…
Five Russian GRU Officers and One Civilian Charged for Conspiring to Hack Ukrainian Government
Six computer hackers, all of whom were residents and nationals of the Russian Federation (Russia), were charged in an indictment with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and wire fraud conspiracy. Five of the defendants were officers in Unit 29155 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), a military intelligence agency of the General Staff of…
U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Pleads Guilty to Charges of Conspiracy to Obtain and Disclose National Defense Information, Export Control Violations and Bribery
Today’s reminder of the insider threat is yesterday’s press release from the Department of Justice: Korbein Schultz, a U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty today to all charges against him in the indictment returned by a federal grand jury in March 2024 charging him with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information,…