MEDIA NOTE
APRIL 26, 2022
The U.S.
Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, which is administered
by the Diplomatic Security Service, is offering a reward of up to $10 million
for information leading to the identification or location of any person who,
while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government,
participates in malicious cyber activities against U.S. critical infrastructure
in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
RFJ is seeking
information on six officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General
Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU) for their role in a
criminal conspiracy involving malicious cyber activities affecting U.S.
critical infrastructure.
GRU officers Yuriy
Sergeyevich Andrienko (Юрий Сергеевич Андриенко), Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov
(Сергей Владимирович Детистов), Pavel Valeryevich Frolov (Павел Валерьевич
Фролов), Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev (Анатолий Сергеевич Ковалев), Artem
Valeryevich Ochichenko (Артем Валерьевич Очиченко), and Petr Nikolayevich
Pliskin (Петр Николаевич Плискин) 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.
All six individuals work
in the GRU’s Unit 74455, also known by cybersecurity researchers as Sandworm
Team, Telebots, Voodoo Bear, and Iron Viking.
These individuals were
members of the criminal conspiracy responsible for the June 27, 2017,
destructive malware infection of computers in the United States and worldwide
using malware known as NotPetya. These cyber intrusions damaged the computers
of hospitals and other medical facilities in the Heritage Valley Health System
(Heritage Valley) in western Pennsylvania, a large U.S. pharmaceutical
manufacturer, and other U.S. private sector entities. The malicious cyber
activities collectively cost these U.S. entities nearly $1 billion in losses.
On October 15, 2020, a
federal grand jury indicted these six Russian officers on counts of conspiracy
to conduct computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire
fraud, damaging protected computers, and aggravated identity theft.
More
information about this reward offer is located on the Rewards for
Justice website at https://rewardsforjustice.net/english/malicious_cyber_activity.html . We encourage
anyone with information on these six individuals’ malicious cyberactivity to
contact Rewards for Justice via the Tor-based tips-reporting channel at:
he5dybnt7sr6cm32xt77pazmtm65flqy6irivtflruqfc5ep7eiodiad.onion (Tor browser
required).
Since
its inception in 1984, the program has paid in excess of $200 million to
more than 100 people across the globe who provided actionable
information that helped prevent terrorism, bring terrorist leaders to
justice, and resolve threats to U.S. national security. Follow us on
Twitter at https://twitter.com/RFJ_USA .
REWARD! Up to $10M for information on 6 Russian GRU hackers. They targeted U.S. critical infrastructure with malicious cyber ops. Send us info on their activities via our Dark Web-based tips line at: https://t.co/WvkI416g4Whttps://t.co/oZCKNHU3fY pic.twitter.com/u1NMAZ9HQl
— Rewards for Justice (@RFJ_USA) April 26, 2022
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