Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) today (Thursday) accused the Pentagon and NATO countries of being behind large-scale cyberattacks emanating from Ukrainian territory and targeting Russia's vital infrastructure.
He said in a statement: "He obtained data indicating the use of Ukrainian territory by the United States and NATO countries to launch large-scale cyber attacks on civilian facilities on Russian territory," according to what was reported by the TASS news agency.
He pointed out that the West has used the infrastructure in Ukraine through cyber operations units, which use new types of cyber weapons secretly, pointing out that Washington is disavowing its officials by pushing forward Kiev, and promoting Ukrainian groups as the first and last actor, such as the “IT” group. Army of Ukrain», which carried out thousands of cyber attacks on Russian information resources.
The agency added, "At the same time, cyber attacks are being developed with the direct participation of the Pentagon's Joint Command, in cooperation with the global Anonymous and Silence groups, the local groups GhostClean in the United States, GNG in Georgia, and Skvad in Poland."
And Russian security stated that it had monitored more than 5,000 hacking attacks against vital infrastructure in Russia, since the beginning of 2022, indicating that it was taking measures in a timely manner, which prevented negative consequences of those attacks on the country.
On the other hand, the repercussions of the incident of leaking classified and top-secret documents from the US Department of Defense are still going on, especially after new information was revealed about the leaker, showing that someone actually knows him and knows his name and whereabouts.
One of the members of the group through which the OG leaker published the documents stated that two members of it knew the real name of the perpetrator, as well as the state in which he lived and worked, but they refused to share this information.
He added that they got to know each other by following a gun blogger on YouTube, then moved to the Discord group, and according to the Washington Post, the group of about 24 people, including people from Russia and Ukraine, was formed based on their mutual love of firearms and military equipment. They also set up an invitation-only club via Discord in 2020.
One said he met OG in person, describing him as "the undisputed leader of the group" and that he became angry when the group's members ignored reading the secret posts.
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