The new indictment also represents the first official acknowledgement from the US government that Sandworm was responsible for a cyberattack on the 2018 Winter Olympics, in which a piece of malware known as Olympic Destroyer took down much of the IT infrastructure of the Games just as the opening ceremony was beginning in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Olympic Destroyer contained layers of "false flags," spoofed clues in its code designed to trick investigators into blaming North Korea or China. And according to the new indictment, Sandworm also tried to breach two Olympic partner organizations responsible for timekeeping in the Olympics, not just the Wifi, Olympics app, ticketing, and displays that were ultimately disrupted—perhaps an attempt to corrupt the Olympics sporting events' actual results, too.
In the more than two years that followed, no government in the world officially seemed willing to blame the cyberattack on Russia, even as private intelligence firms like FireEye found strong evidence of Sandworm's involvement, and US intelligence leaked their findings of Russia's culpability to The Washington Post. (The European Union did finally name "Olympic Destroyer" as one of the known names for Sandworm in sanctions against the group in July, but without explicitly saying that the sanctions were in response to the Olympics attack.)
That long silence led to
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