The first was a June 2021 indictment in the District of Columbia, United States v. Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh. It is alleged that Gladkikh and his co-conspirators attacked critical infrastructure outside the United States. This resulted in two separate emergency shutdowns at a foreign targeted facility.
Gladkikh is a Russian employed by the State Research Center of the Russian Federation FGUP Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics which is a branch of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
He is being charged with installing “backdoors.” And then launching malware designed to compromise the safety of energy facilities.
The second unsealed indictment is for June 2021 in the state of Kansas. It was filed against Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Gavrilov, and Marat Valeryevich Tyukov who allegedly work for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is a renaming of the KGB.
They are being charged with computer fraud and abuse, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and causing damage to the property of an energy facility.
