Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware

Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by dx87 on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:53PM (#24829605)

It could also just be done as a thinly veiled threat to discourage people from working there. Even if nobody is arrested, the statement is basically saying "it doesn't matter where you are, or how secretive your work is, we can find you". I can imagine spouses and family would suggest they start looking for a different job after seeing the announcment.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by SCHiM on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:14PM (#24829794)

Indeed. And as GP said. If you force your adversary to take more precautions you're driving up the cost, increase the time it takes for them to perform operations, makes them need more experienced/educated personnel, more procedures to catch mistakes, etc. etc.

That's not a bad thing for Russia's adversaries.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by cameldrv on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:17PM (#24830484)

It also means that they can't visit countries with an extradition treaty with the U.S. This is not the biggest penalty ever but it's something.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by rconti on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:24PM (#24831194)

And it's even more of 'something' when you're in a country with a questionable economy and future.

I'd have to think if you're an adequately-compensated-but-not-connected person in Russia, you'd be keeping a Plan B in your back pocket "just in case".

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by dredmorbius on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:54PM (#24830899)

Also assets, interests, and possibly more.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by anonAndOn on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:07PM (#24831041)

It's basically, "good luck taking the wife & kids on holiday outside of Russia!"

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by dredmorbius on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:41PM (#24832793)

Or investments, purchases, business opportunities, ...

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by Stierlitz on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:04PM (#24832481)

@dx87: “It could also just be done as a thinly veiled threat to discourage people from working there”

Yea, those damn Ruskies are so stupid they left their name and home address in the compiled files.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by green_rooster on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:10PM (#24832519)

Not far off from that, it seems:

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1318277154908536833

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by Stierlitz on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:22PM (#24832612)

@green_rooster: “Not far off from that, it seems:”

Ни черта не умеют!

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by rland on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:53PM (#24830889)

But this is only six people. I'm sure they have hundreds or thousands of people working on "the America project" at the GRU.

We nailed 6 of them. So what? Foreign intelligence agencies weed out a CIA spy every now and then, but that doesn't seem to deter the CIA.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by Traster on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:56PM (#24830919)

Honestly, having worked for large companies, it's astonishing how few people are working on any given project. It's normally a handful of people actively contributing to any given specific project.

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