On Thursday, federal prosecutors with the United States Department of Justice announced that a trio…
American Greatness By Eric Lendrum
On Thursday, federal prosecutors with the United States Department of Justice announced that a trio of Russian spies attempted to hack multiple power plants around the world, with the aim of seizing control of energy companies in 135 different countries.
As reported by the New York Post, the three hackers were members of a covert unit known as âDragonfly,â which operated within the Russian Federal Security Service. The group targeted hardware and software utilized by hundreds of different companies in the management of nuclear power plants and other sources of energy.
In the newly unsealed indictment from the Justice Department, the three men â 36-year-old Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulov, 42-year-old Mikhail Mikhailovich Gavrilov, and 39-year-old Marat Valeryevich Tyukov â are accused of using a tactic known as âspearphishingâ in email scams in order to infiltrate energy companies. Once they gained access, they would then insert malware into software updates that would affect over 17,000 users.
