UK and US expose Russian hacking plot intended to influence UK’s 2019 elections and spread disinformation
What's happened?
Two men have been charged
[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-russian-nationals-working-russias-federal-security-service-charged-global-computer]
with hacking into computer networks in the United States, UK, other NATO
countries, and Ukraine, on behalf of the Russian government.
Who are the men?
The men have been named by the US Department of Justice as Ruslan Aleksandrovich
Peretyatko, who is an officer in Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Center
18, and Andrey Stanisla