Security News > 2020 > February > US and UK call out Russian hackers for Georgia attacks
The US and UK governments have both accused Russia of launching a cyber attack against the Georgian government last year.
The attacks, mounted on 28 October 2019, came from Russia's notorious GRU military intelligence unit, according to announcements from the US State Department and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
In the book, Greenberg linked all these attacks to Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Its National Cyber Security Centre said that it "Assesses with the highest level of probability" that the GRU carried out large-scale disruptive cyberattacks against web hosting companies in Georgia, defacing sites including those belonging to the Georgian government, courts, NGOs, media and businesses.
Calling out the Georgian attacks, a US official tells me, is meant to make the rules clearer for the Kremlin: These sorts of disruptive cyberattacks are not ok, even against countries in Russia's backyard.
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