Georgia, Britain and the United States on Thursday accused Russia of orchestrating a"reckless" cyber assault against the pro-Western Caucasus nation last year as part of an aggressive campaign of online attacks worldwide.
The hack, which they said was carried out by Russia's GRU military intelligence, targeted the websites of the president, courts and media outlets, among others. The GRU has been linked to a series of major attacks, including the hacking of US Democratic National Committee servers before President Donald Trump's election in 2016.
The US State Department said for its part the incident demonstrated"a continuing pattern of reckless Russian GRU cyber operations against a number of countries". The 2019 cyber attack on the Caucasus country on Russia's southern border resulted in some websites displaying a photo of Georgia's exiled former president Mikheil Saakashvili with the inscription:"I'll be back!"
In 2008, in the run-up to and during the war between Russia and Georgia, Tbilisi accused Moscow of an all-out cyber attack against the websites of nearly all government agencies and leading banks.
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