The DOJ charges four Russian officials for alleged hacking campaigns from 2012 to 2018 on critical US infrastructure, including a Kansas nuclear power plant
Saturday, March 26, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: DiyGarage SoCal Gary Warner / CyberCrime & Doing Time : Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and CISA/FBI's New Era of Transparency Cynthia Brumfield / Metacurity : Four Russian Officials Charged With Hacking Critical Infrastructure Lisa Vaas / Threatpost : DOJ Indicts Russian Gov't Employees Over Targeting Power Sector Jai Vijayan / Dark Reading : Indictment of Russian National Offers Glimpse Into Methodical Targeting of Energy Firm Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : US indicted 4 Russian government employees for attacks on critical infrastructure Lucian Constantin / CSO : US charges Russian government agents for cyberattacks on critical infrastructure Carly Page / TechCrunch : US charges four Russian spies for hacking Saudi oil facility and US nuclear power plant Steve Zurier / SC Media : Advisory issued as DoJ indicts Russian nationals for cyberattacks on critical infrastructure CISA : Alert (AA22-083A) — Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of Indicted State-Sponsored Russian … File411's Newsletter : I am taking a few days off -I will see you on the 28th Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Department of Justice Reminds Us Russian Hackers Are a Serious Threat PYMNTS.com : Russian Government Employees Charged in Worldwide Hacking Scheme Ravie Lakshmanan / The Hacker News : U.S. Charges 4 Russian Govt. Employees Over Hacking Critical Infrastructure Worldwide Agence France-Presse : Four Russians Indicted In US For Energy Sector Hacks Reuters : Russian Agents Charged With Targeting US Nuclear Plant, Saudi Oil Refinery Andy Greenberg / Wired : Feds Allege Destructive Russian Hackers Targeted US Refineries Tweets: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : details in these charges help answer why there hasn't been louder cyberwar since Russia invaded Ukraine. one of many reasons: it's a lot of work to launch a destructive attack. it took three years of prep to build malware that disrupted safety systems. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/... @emptywheel : One thing I can't get over about yesterday's hacking indictment announcement. AUSA Luke Jones is one of the prosecutors on the Gladkikh indictment. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/... @mandiant : Charges against Russian officials targeting critical infrastructure back to 2012 come days after President Biden's warnings of potential cyber attacks from Moscow. One of these attacks, @JohnHultquist tells @NYTimes, signaled a leap in what was possible. https://www.nytimes.com/... Robert M. Lee / @robertmlee : I'm glad CISA is providing a companion document w/ the DOJ indictment of the Russian govt operators who targeted ICS. Lots of great info but please don't follow their mitigation advice for ICS. It's not practical & in some cases dangerous. A quick thread: https://us-cert.cisa.gov/... Josh Mankiewicz / @joshmankiewicz : The announcement covered hackings from 2012 to 2018, but served as yet another warning from the Biden administration of Russia's ability to conduct such operations. https://www.nytimes.com/... @cisagov : With the @FBI and @DOE_CESER, we issued an advisory on energy sector facility intrusions from 2011-2018: https://us-cert.gov/... This historical info highlights the need to go Shields Up against this & other potential Russian state-sponsored activity: https://cisa.gov/... https://twitter.com/... Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : Justice Dept unseals indictment charging Russian hacker - Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh - with orchestrating Triton hack that struck a Saudi petro-chemical plant in 2017. Triton was first-of-its kind attack aimed at subverting the safety system at a refinery https://www.justice.gov/... @thejusticedept : Four Russian Government Employees Charged in Two Historical Hacking Campaigns Targeting Critical Infrastructure Worldwide Defendants' Separate Campaigns Both Targeted Software and Hardware for Operational Technology Systems https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/... Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy : 3 officers from the FSB, the Kremlin's security service, are accused of hacking the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, which runs a nuclear plant in Kansas. They are also charged with hacking hundreds of other energy businesses around the world. https://www.nytimes.com/...