According to the Department of Justice, 22-year-old Amin Stigal helped Russian military intelligence carry out cyber operations, including probing computers belonging to a federal government agency in Maryland.
Actions to Take Today: • Set antivirus and antimalware programs to conduct regular scans. • Enable strong spam filters to prevent phishing emails from reaching end users. • Filter network traffic. • Update software. • Require multifactor authentication. Leading up to Russia’s unprovoked attack against Ukraine, threat actors deployed destructive malware against organizations in Ukraine to destroy computer systems and render them inoperable.
