The United States has "strongly" condemned a series of cyberattacks it says were conducted by a unit of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) on several countries in Europe, including Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, and the Czech Republic. The State Department in Washington said in a statement on May 3 that APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, was behind the attacks on a variety of targets from defense and aerospace firms to infrastructure operators and political parties. "We call on Russia to stop this malicious activity and abide by its international commitments and obligations," it said.
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