Federal prosecutors have added new charges against members of Russia’s military intelligence service and an alleged conspirator, accusing them of engaging in a hacking campaign to “sow concern among Ukrainian citizens” regarding their government’s cybersecurity.
A superseding indictment, filed on August 7 but unsealed on Thursday, adds five charges against members of Russia’s military intelligence service, GRU, and one Russian civilian for their alleged conspiracy to use a US-based company’s services to distribute malware, known in the cybersecurity community as “WhisperGate” and designed to look like ransomware, to dozens of Ukrainian government entities’ computer systems.
The malware was allegedly a cyberweapon designed to destroy the target computer and related data before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the indictment.
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