Yesterday, the federal government rolled out two hacking indictments from final yr as a part of its effort to make use of authorized paperwork to show Russian spying operations. Whereas the indictments are essential talking paperwork, I spotted from the response that the subset of journalists who focus totally on cybersecurity have been unaware that this effort was half of a bigger effort to display Russia’s spying that DOJ (and, absolutely, different companies of the IC) have been pursuing because the Russian invasion.
So I needed to start out gathering all cases right here as a option to see the whole package deal of what DOJ is doing. I’ll attempt to maintain this up-to-date.
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February 22, 2022: Treasury sanctions Russian banks
Particular person targets embrace Denis Aleksandrovich Bortnikov, Petr Mikhailovich Fradkov, Vladimir Sergeevich Kiriyenko.
February 24, 2022: Treasury sanctions Russian banks
Targets embrace Sberbank, VTB, Gazprom, Rostelecom, Alfa Financial institution, Sergei Sergeevich Ivanov, Andrey Patrushev, Ivan Sechin (the latter sons of key oligarchs).
February 25, 2022: Treasury sanctions Putin and Sergei Lavrov
February 28, 2022: Treasury sanctions Kirill Dmitriev
Targets embrace Dmitriev and RDIF.
March 3, 2022: Treasury sanctions key Putin cronies
Targets embrace Alisher Burhanovich Usmanov, Nikolay Petrovich Tokarev, Yevgeniy Prigozhin and their households.
March 3, 2022: US v. Jack Hanick
November 4, 2021 sealed indictment in opposition to a former Fox worker who helped sanctioned oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev arrange some media shops to push Russian propaganda. Hanick was arrested within the UK on February 3, 2022 and is being extradited. (press launch; my publish)
March 7, 2022: US v. Elena Branson
March 7, 2022 criticism in opposition to the one-time chair of the Russian Neighborhood Council of the USA. Branson tried to arrange conferences with Trump. (press launch; my publish)
March 11, 2022: Treasury sanctions Oligarchs
Targets embrace Dmitri Peskov and his household, Viktor Feliksovich Vekselberg, and the VTB board.
March 14, 2022: US v. Andrey Muraviev
September 17, 2020 indictment in opposition to the funder for Lev Parnas’ hashish donations, Andrey Murviev. The S2 indictment is similar to the S1 indictment obtained the identical day, although with Muraviev recognized. (press launch; my publish)
March 17, 2022: Treasury creates process power to focus on Oligarchs
March 24, 2021: Treasury sanctions concentrating on industrial base
Sanctions concentrating on army industrial complicated, Duma members, Herman Oskarovich Gref.
March 24, 2022: US v. Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh
June 29, 2021 indictment in opposition to Evgeny Gladkikh for Triton hacking operations concentrating on refineries and different vitality services
March 24, 2022: US v. Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulov
August 26, 2021 indictment in opposition to three FSB officers working as a part of the Dragonfly or Berzerk Bear hacking group for concentrating on ICS methods.
