The United Kingdom on Monday exposed and condemned cyberattacks that the Russian military intelligence service GRU allegedly launched against organizations involved in the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games that were set to take place in Tokyo this summer, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The GRU is known for launching numerous hacking campaigns for the benefit of Moscow, including high-profile attacks such as those involving the BlackEnergy, Industroyer, and NotPetya malware families.
On Monday, the United States announced charges against six officers of the GRU, which is also said to have orchestrated the cyberattacks on the PyeongChang Winter Olympics with the Olympic Destroyer malware. Russia has also been blamed for attacks on Georgian companies and government organizations.
On Monday, the UK officially accused the GRU of launching malicious cyber-operations targeting the Olympic and Paralympic Games, including the now-postponed 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
“The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) assesses with high confidence that these attacks were carried out by the GRU’s Main Centre for Specialist Technologies (GTsST), also known as Sandworm and VoodooBear,” the NCSC says.
GTsST, which is known by its field post number 74455, is also referred to as BlackEnergy Group, Telebots, Iron Viking ..
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