GRU won't believe it: UK and US call out Russia for cyber-attacks on Georgia last year

GRU won't believe it: UK and US call out Russia for cyber-attacks on Georgia last year

It's APT28 again! Public attribution names and shames state-backed crew


The same Russian state hackers who unleashed NotPetya on the world's computers were behind destructive cyberattacks on Georgia during 2019, the governments of Britain and the US have said – echoing a similar attribution a decade ago.


"The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) assesses with the highest level of probability that on 28 October 2019 the GRU carried out large-scale, disruptive cyber-attacks," said the Foreign Office in a statement, referring to the main Russian overseas spy agency.


In a detailed statement the government department attributed the attack to a state-backed hacker crew "known as the Sandworm team, BlackEnergy Group, Telebots, and VoodooBear," to give it some of its open-source names. The statement continued: "It is operated by the GRU's Main Centre of Special Technologies, often re ..

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