The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities

The week was peculiarly chock-full of melodramatic information news. On Friday, a flawed update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon level caused monolithic planetary work outages and disruptions astir the world. The issue, which lone impacted Windows computers, crashed PCs and servers, disrupting aerial travel, hospitals, banks, universities, and more.

Earlier successful the week, WIRED had reported that pursuing a monolithic information breach, AT&T paid $370,000 to get hackers to delete the stolen data. And, though it’s ever imaginable that attackers saved a transcript of the trove, a information researcher with cognition of the transaction told WIRED helium believes the lone transcript has been wiped. In a abstracted incident, hackers claimed past week to person stolen and leaked much than a terabyte of information comprising Disney’s implicit Slack archive.

A WIRED investigation of Republican vice statesmanlike nominee J.D. Vance’s Venmo account sheds immoderate airy connected the Senator’s web and connections, including immoderate of the architects of Project 2025 and enemies of Vance’s moving mate, Donald Trump.

Federal prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old antheral connected Tuesday for allegedly starring the convulsive and White supremacist Eastern European pack known arsenic “Maniac Murder Cult,” oregon MKY. The radical has been implicated successful a fig of assaults and attacks abroad, including astatine slightest 1 murder.

The US Supreme Court’s caller determination successful Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo to overturn what’s known arsenic the Chevron deference volition have large implications for US cybersecurity defense, due to the fact that national agencies are present constricted successful their quality to regulate. And US legislator Mark Warner of Virginia is moving to walk caller limits connected authorities wiretaps, but at slightest 2 senators are softly trying to halt him.

And there’s more. Each week, we circular up the information quality we didn’t screen successful extent ourselves. Click the headlines to work the afloat stories, and enactment harmless retired there.

Russian Hacktivists Who Attacked US Water Utilities Named and Sanctioned

Sometimes “Julia,” the shadowy, pseudonymous Russian hacker telling you her expansive plans to sabotage the West, truly is conscionable Julia. Or Yuliya.

On Friday, the Treasury Department announced that it is imposing sanctions connected 2 alleged Russian cybercriminals for their alleged engagement successful the hacktivist radical Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, oregon CARR, which roseate to prominence this twelvemonth owed to its reckless and somewhat sloppy attacks connected Western captious infrastructure, arsenic good arsenic its evident ties to Russia’s GRU subject quality agency. Those 2 sanctioned hackers are identified successful Treasury’s connection for the archetypal clip arsenic Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko.

In May, WIRED interviewed a CARR spokesperson who called herself Julia astir the group’s attacks, which included 1 that caused tens of thousands of gallons of h2o to beryllium spilled from a h2o inferior successful the tiny municipality of Muleshoe, Texas. That spokesperson present appears to person apt been Pankratova, who is identified by Treasury arsenic CARR’s spokesperson, portion Degtyarenko is described arsenic its “primary hacker.”