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Court documents call the attacks, which also targeted electrical power systems, the "most destructive" use of malware.
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday accused six Russian computer hackers of causing power blackouts, financial losses of nearly $1 billion and targeting the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Court documents said the six were officers in the Russian military's main intelligence directorate and used "some of the most destructive malware to date." Prosecutors said it caused blackouts in Ukraine, victimized the Olympics opening ceremony, and caused losses of nearly $1 billion to Pennsylvania's Heritage Valley Health System and three other U.S. companies, including a large pharmaceutical manufacturer.
The officers are part of a GRU unit known as "Sandworm," which previous Justice Department indictments said was responsible for hacking U.S. election infrastructure to create personas and leak Democratic party e-mails in 2016.
NPR: The defendants are charged with conspiracy to conduct computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, damaging protected computers and aggravated identity theft in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh.
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday accused six Russian computer hackers of causing power blackouts, financial losses of nearly $1 billion and targeting the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Court documents said the six were officers in the Russian military's main intelligence directorate and used "some of the most destructive malware to date." Prosecutors said it caused blackouts in Ukraine, victimized the Olympics opening ceremony, and caused losses of nearly $1 billion to Pennsylvania's Heritage Valley Health System and three other U.S. companies, including a large pharmaceutical manufacturer.
The officers are part of a GRU unit known as "Sandworm," which previous Justice Department indictments said was responsible for hacking U.S. election infrastructure to create personas and leak Democratic party e-mails in 2016.
NPR: The defendants are charged with conspiracy to conduct computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, damaging protected computers and aggravated identity theft in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh.
