The Justice Department stands united with our partners and allies in supporting the Ukrainian people in the wake of Russia's unlawful and unjust invasion,
Today's superseding indictment underscores our commitment to using all the tools at our disposal to pursue those who would do us and our allies around the world harm,
Cyber operations for sabotage, intelligence gathering or information warfare are key components of the Russian Federation's military doctrine of hybrid warfare. We defend Estonia's national security also in cyberspace, and in addition to physical spies, we also expose cyber spies,
Although the suspects are currently believed to be in Russia, the international search and arrest warrants mean that if they travel outside of Russia, there is a real risk that a country may detain them and extradite them to Estonia for trial."
We identified the first leads and suspects early in the investigation, which allowed us, in cooperation with other agencies, to prevent more extensive damage and its spread,
We are talking about many, many units which should have seen something and they failed,
The Justice Department is seizing 32 internet domains that the Russian government and Russian government-sponsored actors have used to engage in a covert campaign to interfere in and influence the outcome of our country’s elections,
Russian state-sponsored actors have long used a variety of tools, such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) deep fakes and disinformation, in an attempt to undermine confidence in the United States’ election processes and institutions,
Adding insult to injury these individuals not only used tools to scan for vulnerabilities 63 times on a Maryland U.S.-based government agency, but they also scanned our allies throughout the world, including Ukrainian servers and servers in various other countries,
Estonia condemns any malign activity, including cyberactivity that threatens our institutions, our citizens and our security,
Russia's aim was to damage national computer systems, obtain sensitive information and strike a blow against our sense of security,
The FBI, along with our law enforcement partners and allies, will relentlessly hunt down and counter these threats,
The WhisperGate campaign included the targeting of civilian infrastructure and Ukrainian computer systems wholly unrelated to the military or national defense,
Ukrainians! All information about you has become public, be afraid and expect the worst."
Seeking to sap the morale of the Ukrainian public, the defendants also stole and leaked the personal data of thousands of Ukrainian civilians, including by posting patient health information and other sensitive private data for sale online and then taunting those victims,
They targeted computers around the world and used the computer infrastructures of an unwitting U.S.-based company to conduct the WhisperGate attacks,
This type of cyber warfare will not be tolerated. The scope of Russia's crimes cannot be ignored,
First and foremost, we need to discredit the USA, Great Britain and NATO, and secondly,” convince Germans to oppose the “inefficient politics of sanctions”.
We know Britain is behind the invasion of Kursk”.
To escalate internal tensions ... in order to promote the interests of the Russian Federation,” as well as “to influence real-life conflicts and artificially create conflict situations” via fake articles, influencers, as well as targeted posts and comments on social media