The U.S. announced $10 million reward to identify or locate six Russian GRU hackers who are part of the notorious Sandworm hacking group.
This reward is offered as part of the Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program, which rewards informants for information that helps to identify or locate foreign government threat actors who perform malicious cyber operations against U.S. critical infrastructure.
The U.S. Department of State announced that they are seeking information on six Russian officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU) for their alleged role in malicious cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure.
GRU officers Yuriy Sergeyevich Andrienko, Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov, Pavel Valeryevich Frolov, Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, Artem Valeryevich Ochichenko, and Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin were members of a conspiracy that deployed destructive malware and took other disruptive actions for the strategic benefit of Russia through unauthorized access to victim computers.
The Department of Justice indicted all of them for being part of the elite Russian hacking group known as Sandworm also known as Team, Telebots, Voodoo Bear, and Iron Viking.
All six individuals were charged with conspiracy to conduct computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, damaging protected computers, and aggravated identity theft.
The Rewards of Justice has set up a Tor site at he5dybnt7sr6cm32xt77pazmtm65flqy6irivtflruqfc5ep7eiodiad.onion that can be used to submit tips about these threat actors anonymously, and others.
The Rewards of Justice is looking for information on other threat actors, including REvil ransomware, DarkSide ransomware, North Korean cybercrime threat actors, and nation-state hackers targeting U.S. businesses and critical infrastructure sectors.
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