Andriyenko Yury Sergeyevich

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2022: State Department announces $10 million reward for information about "Russian hackers"

At the end of April 2022 , the US State Department announced a reward of $10 million for information about allegedly six Russians whom the agency considers involved in a hacker attack on US institutions in June 2017 using the Notpetya virus .

American law enforcement agencies are looking for and ready to pay money for data that allows you to identify or locate any person who "participates in malicious cybercrime against critical US infrastructure." The State Department attributed to such persons:

• Andrienko Yuri Sergeevich;
• Detistov Sergey Vladimirovich;
• Frolov Pavel Valerievich;
• Kovalev Anatoly Sergeevich;
• Ochichenko Artem Valerievich;
• Pliskin Peter Nikolaevich.

The State Department announced a reward for information about "Russian hackers"

According to the State Department, these persons were participants in a conspiracy, during which, with the help of unauthorized access to the computers of the victims, they introduced malicious software and took other subversive actions in the strategic interests of Russia. It is alleged that all six people worked in unit 74455 of the GRU.

According to the American authorities, these persons were members of a criminal conspiracy responsible for infecting computers in the United States and around the world since June 27, 2017 with a malicious ON one known as NotPetya. As a result of these cyber attacks, computers of hospitals and other medical institutions health care of the Heritage Valley system in western Pennsylvania, a large American manufacturer of pharmaceutical products and other American private sector enterprises, suffered. Malicious cybercrime combined cost American organizations about $1 billion in losses.

Earlier, a US federal jury charged six Russian officers with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, as well as conspiracy to commit communications fraud, damage to protected computers and aggravated identity theft.^[1]

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