United Kingdom officials said that Russian hackers targeted this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo with the aim of disrupting them. The Foreign Office said Russia’s GRU military intelligence carried out “cyber reconnaissance” against officials and organizations involved.
The alleged attacks took place before the Games were postponed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Officials did not, however, specify the nature or extent of the cyber-attacks in detail.
At the same time, the United States Department of Justice announced charges against six Russian GRU officers for alleged cyber-attacks serving “the strategic benefit of Russia”.
United States prosecutors said that the group sought to disrupt the 2018 Winter Olympics, the 2017 French presidential election, and Ukraine’s power grid.
No country has weaponries its cyber capabilities as maliciously or irresponsibly as Russia, assistant attorney general John Demers told a press conference, calling it “the most disruptive and destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group”.
The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the attacks targeting organizers, sponsors, and logistics providers of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympics Games were “cynical and reckless“.
The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also said that we condemn them in the strongest possible terms. The UK will continue to work with our allies to call out and counter future malicious cyber-attacks.
Foreign Office officials also revealed details of the attack on the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. On that occasion, the operation was a “false flag” – one designed to look like it came from North Korea or China.
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