The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday unsealed an indictment of five Russian intelligence officers, plus one Russian civilian, for conducting the “WhisperGate” cyberattack on Ukrainian infrastructure in January 2022. The case is largely symbolic but offers an interesting look at what the FBI described as “the first shot of the war.”
A Russian-born Swedish citizen was charged Monday with collecting information for the Kremlin’s GRU military intelligence service.
The surprising and short-lived mutiny by Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 24 brought new attention to the shadowy mercenary organization, which has been active in Africa and the Middle East for many years.
Brothers originally born in Iran have been convicted by a Swedish court for spying on the country and passing along information to Russia.
A trial opened Friday in Sweden in the case of two Iranian-born brothers who have been charged with spying for Russia for a decade.
Two brothers born in Iran have been charged with spying on behalf of Russia in Sweden for ten years, with one of the brothers having held jobs in the Swedish Security Police (Sapo) and the Swedish armed forces.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Wednesday expelled eight members of Russia’s mission, cutting it down to half size, and reduced the maximum size of the mission to 10 members from 20. NATO said the individuals it expelled were “undeclared Russian intelligence officers.”
A former Army Green Beret allegedly committed espionage, conspiring with Russia’s foreign intelligence arm, the GRU, and giving them national defense information between 1996 and 2011, prosecutors said Friday.
McEnany slammed the leak that alleged a Russian military intelligence unit had offered bounties on American forces as “irresponsible.”
Echoing unsubstantiated claims from failed American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is “hard evidence” that Russian intelligence operatives hacked her email accounts. Dr Merkel said that “cyber-disorientation, the distortion of facts” are all a
Dutch security services said Thursday they had thwarted a Russian cyber attack on the global chemical weapons watchdog, as Western powers blamed Moscow for some of the biggest hacking plots of recent years.
An investigative group in Britain says it has identified one of the two suspects in the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in the U.K. as a highly-decorated colonel in the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.
