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They are our fucking enemies.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/united-states-vs-dubranova-indictment-one.pdf?ref=breached.company

https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/us-slaps-new-charges-on-ukrainian-over-russian-cyberattacks/ar-AA1S3cpW?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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The US Department of Justice unveiled additional charges against a Ukrainian woman accused of supporting Russian state-backed cyberattacks against critical infrastructure.

Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, 33, was indicted over her alleged links to a Moscow-sponsored group, the DOJ said in statement on Tuesday. Dubranova was extradited to the US earlier this year over her alleged support for another Russian group. She has pleaded not guilty in both cases.

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“Today’s actions demonstrate the department’s commitment to disrupting malicious Russian cyber activity — whether conducted directly by state actors or their criminal proxies — aimed at furthering Russia’s geopolitical interests,” US Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said in the statement.

Both groups Dubranova is accused of working with, CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn (CARR) and NoName057(16), have strong links to the Russian government, according to the DOJ. 

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CARR was founded, funded, and directed by the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, known as GRU, according to the Justice Department. The group claimed credit for hundreds of cyberattacks worldwide, including attacks against critical infrastructure in the US.

“The GRU is increasingly leaning into willing accomplices to hide their own hand in destabilizing physical and cyber attacks in Europe and the US,” said John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group.

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Bloomberg News has reported on various attacks on US water systems including in Muleshoe, Texas, for which CARR posted a video apparently showing hackers manipulating its industrial control system.

Muleshoe gets a shout-out: Tiny Texas City Repels Russia-Tied Hackers Eyeing Water System - Bloomberg

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Small utilities across the US have long relied on “security by obscurity” but this approach no longer works because of how easy it is for hackers to scan the entire internet for vulnerable devices, Leatherman told reporters on Wednesday. 

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The DOJ said CARR also attacked a meat processing facility in Los Angeles as well as US election infrastructure and the websites of US nuclear regulatory entities. 

NoName, it alleged, is a state-sanctioned project established by a Russian presidential order in 2018, and has claimed credit for hundreds of cyberattacks and primarily conducted DDoS cyberattacks. Its victims include government agencies, financial institutions, and critical infrastructure, such as public railways and ports, the US agency said.

More, if you care to read the case

The U.S. has unsealed a California grand jury indictment exposing how Russian GRU hackers targeted critical infrastructure in the U.S. They hit a regional airport in Missouri, drinking water and water storage facilities in Texas, Pennsylvania and Indiana, and a meat packing facility in California. One cyber attack caused 200,000 gallons of water to overflow in Texas. Another caused 2,000 pounds of meat to spoil.

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

What's surprising to me is that they even got the green light to prosecute this.

It is in Cali, though.

Hell, the DOJ commenting so publicly on this surprised me.

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1 minute ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

You'd think that they'd be smart enough to air gap these kinds of facilities, but I guess not. 

Interesting that many if not most of the breaches occurred with SCADA controllers.

Those way predate the internet, but I guess at some point remote control became a thing, without the robustness of more modern remote control via internet.

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Remember when Elon Musk had complete, unfettered access to our most sensitive systems and hooked that shit up to starlink and we immediately started seeing russian IP addresses accessing US government databases? Cool stuff. Awesome that we did absolutely jack-shit about it.

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