US, UK Intelligence Accuse Russia's GRU Of Conducting A 'Brute Force' Campaign Of Cyberattacks Worldwide

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RFE: U.S., British Security Agencies Expose Russia's Global 'Brute Force' Hacking Campaign 

U.S. and British security agencies have exposed “brute force” methods they say have been used by the Russian military-intelligence agency known as the GRU to conduct malicious cyberactivities against hundreds of government and private organizations. 

In an advisory released on July 1, the U.S. National Security Agency described cyberattacks carried out by operatives of the GRU, which has been accused of involvement in attempts to disrupt U.S. presidential elections in 2016 and 2020, the hack in 2015 of the German Bundestag, and attacks on Ukraine's power grid, and many others.  

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