Security News > 2022 > April > U.S. Offers $10 Million Bounty for Information on 6 Russian Military Hackers

The U.S. government on Tuesday announced up to $10 million in rewards for information on six hackers associated with the Russian military intelligence service.

"These individuals participated in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Russian government against U.S. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act," the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program said.

All the six Russian officers are members of an advanced persistent threat group called Sandworm, which is known to be operating since at least 2008 with a specific focus on targeting entities in Ukraine with the goal of establishing an illicit, long-term presence in order to mine highly sensitive data.

The hacker, who are officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, are as follows -.

Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin, Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov, Pavel Valeryevich Frolov, and Yuriy Sergeyevich Andrienko, who are said to have developed components of the NotPetya and Olympic Destroyer malware used by the Russian government on June 27, 2017 to infect computer systems, and.

Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, who is accused of developing spear-phishing techniques and messages used by the Russian government to breach computer systems of critical infrastructure facilities.

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