In a statement, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, said, “No country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously or irresponsibly as Russia, wantonly causing unprecedented damage to pursue small tactical advantages and to satisfy fits of spite,”
“Today the department has charged these Russian officers with conducting the most disruptive and destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group, including by unleashing the NotPetya malware. No nation will recapture greatness while behaving in this way.”
The Notpeya malware caused almost $1 billion in losses to victims including the Heritage Valley Health System in Pennsylvania, FedEx Corporation’s subsidiary TNT Express B.V., and a huge U.S. pharmaceutical corporation.
U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady for the Western District of Pennsylvania, said, “For more than two years we have worked tirelessly to expose these Russian GRU Officers who engaged in a global campaign of hacking, disruption, and destabilization, representing the most destructive and costly cyber-attacks in history.”
