NATO and the EU accused Russia of carrying out an “aggressive hybrid warfare” against Western nations targeting governments, militaries, and critical infrastructure.
The campaign includes physical sabotage, a flood of disinformation, increased espionage, jamming of GPS signals for civilian aviation, and massive cyberattacks, NBC News reported on May 13.
On May 3, the U.S. State Department condemned Russia’s malicious cyber activity, linking it to APT28, a unit within the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formerly the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), or Russian military intelligence.
The U.S. Department of Justice working with Germany, uncovered “a network of hundreds of small office/home office routers that APT28 was using to conceal and carry out malicious activity,” against targets in Germany, Czechia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden, the state department said.
Russian ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov denied the accusations, calling them "insinuations" and “provocative stories,” and claiming falsely, that the U.S. presented no evidence.
Antonov used the Kremlin’s classic disinformation tradecraft to deflect blame for the cyberattacks by manipulating statistical data.
In a post on the Russian messenger app, Telegram on May 3, Antonov said:
“…according to statistics, the vast majority of computer attacks in the world occur from the territory of the United States."
That is misleading.
Cyber threat analysts identify a spectrum of at least five types of cybercrimes, in which cyberattacks with a political dimension stand out as a separate type. Russia ranks top among countries involved in cybercrimes carried out by Nation-State Threat Actors and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) operating with state support. #factcheck #voanews
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14 май 2024
