The US has charged six Russian military intelligence officers with hacking targets including Emmanuel Macron’s political party, the International Olympic Committee and the UK government lab that investigated the poisoning of Sergei Skripal.
The indictment announced on Monday tied a number of cyber attacks that allegedly advanced Russian interests in multiple countries to a group of current and former Russian military officers who worked for the GRU, the country’s spy agency.
The US Department of Justice said the alleged hackers were behind a 2015 and 2016 attack on Ukraine’s energy grid; a 2017 “hack-and-leak” effort against En Marche!; the French president’s party; and attacks on the 2018 Winter Olympics, from which Russia was banned.