Bleeping Computer reports:
U.S. prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian national for her role in cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure worldwide, including U.S. water systems, election systems, and nuclear facilities, on behalf of Russian state-backed hacktivist groups.
On Tuesday, 33-year-old Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova (also known as Vika, Tory, and SovaSonya) was arraigned on charges related to her alleged role in NoName057(16), after being extradited to the U.S. earlier this year for supporting CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn (CARR).
Dubranova has pleaded not guilty in both cases and is now scheduled for trial in February (on the NoName indictment) and April 2026 (on the CARR matter).
As the indictment reveals, NoName057(16) was a state-sanctioned project partially administered by multiple threat actors, as well as The Center for the Study and Network Monitoring of the Youth Environment (CISM), an information technology organization established by order of the Russian president in October 2018.
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