Who are some of the most wanted Russian hackers and cyber threat actors? A partial list from the FBI includes six Russian military intelligence (GRU) officers, three members of the Energetic Bear threat actor group, and one computer programmer employed by an affiliate of the Russian Ministry of Defense. They represent 10 of the agency’s Cyber’s Most Wanted list of suspects.
“The Department [of Justice] has charged these Russian officers with conducting the most disruptive and destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group,” said former Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. Here are the six people he is talking about: