U.S Gov’t Charges Top Russian Military Spies For Cyber Crimes
By Our Reporter
Relations
between the United States of America and Russian are becoming sour after the US
government on Monday charged top Russian Military Intelligence officers with several
cyber crimes.
The
criminal charges the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) announced against six officers of the Russian General Staff
Main Intelligence Directorate’s (GRU) Military Unit 74455 highlight once again
Russia’s continuing disruptive, destructive, and destabilizing activities in
cyberspace.
A
statement from the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about their charges reads in
part thus;
“As
the DOJ and FBI make clear, this Russian military intelligence unit unleashed
some of the most destructive malware the world has seen. The 2017 NotPetya ...