Six men have been named as Russian military hackers and accused of spreading malware, disrupting the Olympics in retaliation for Russia's doping ban, and meddling with elections as well as probes into Novichok poisonings.
Today, the US government claimed the alleged team of cyber-spies:
Unleashed the file-scrambling ransomware NotPetya that in 2017 infected computers worldwide, from hospitals and an American pharmaceutical manufacturer to FedEx, TNT, and others, causing an estimated $1bn in damages.
Targeted South Koreans, athletes, the International Olympic Committee officials, and more, with spear-phishing and malicious mobile apps in the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. In February that year, the team infected and brought down Winter Olympics IT systems with the
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