{"id":285556,"date":"2026-07-04T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/us-offers-10m-reward-for-info-on-russian-cybercriminal-groups\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:05:10","slug":"us-offers-10m-reward-for-info-on-russian-cybercriminal-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/us-offers-10m-reward-for-info-on-russian-cybercriminal-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"US offers $10M reward for info on Russian cybercriminal groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.escudodigital.com\/en\/cybersecurity\/us-offers-10m-reward-for-info-on-russian-cybercriminal-groups.html\">US offers $10M reward for info on Russian cybercriminal groups<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.escudodigital.com\/en\/cybersecurity\/us-offers-10m-reward-for-info-on-russian-cybercriminal-groups.html\">https:\/\/www.escudodigital.com\/en\/cybersecurity\/us-offers-10m-reward-for-info-on-russian-cybercriminal-groups.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-04 01:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.escudodigital.com\">www.escudodigital.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of State&#8217;s Rewards for Justice program has issued an international alert offering <strong>a reward of up to 10 million dollars for anyone who provides crucial information about some well-known threat actors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This multi-million dollar financial incentive seeks to obtain any data t<strong>hat allows the identification, location, or arrest <\/strong>of members of the cybercriminal group <strong>UNC5792<\/strong>, as well as members of the UNC4221 cell, for participating in illegal digital activities against U.S. critical infrastructure and for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Behind both groups is the Government of Russia<\/strong>. Specifically, investigations link UNC5792 to the Border Guard of the Federal Security Service, <strong>the well-known Russian FSB<\/strong>, while the UNC4221 group operates <strong>under the orders of Putin&#8217;s armed forces<\/strong>, mainly in the area of Europe and Eurasia.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the first group has carried out large-scale phishing campaigns and <strong>social engineering tactics targeting Signal and WhatsApp accounts of U.S. government officials, senior military officers, NATO personnel, and journalists <\/strong>investigating Russia and Ukraine issues.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers manage to bypass security by manipulating group invitation links to unauthorizedly link a device under their control, which has allowed them to compromise thousands of accounts, steal contact lists, and access confidential defense and national security communications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through social engineering techniques, these cybercriminals exploit the legitimate device linking functions in these secure messaging applications to gain unauthorized access to confidential government communications, contact lists, and group conversations,&#8221; commented the Rewards for Justice program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After compromising an account, the cybercriminals were also able to send messages and carry out additional phishing attacks against other accounts using those same commercial messaging applications,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite <strong>not having exploited any&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.escudodigital.com\/en\/cybersecurity\/us-offers-10m-reward-for-info-on-russian-cybercriminal-groups.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US offers $10M reward for info on Russian cybercriminal groups https:\/\/www.escudodigital.com\/en\/cybersecurity\/us-offers-10m-reward-for-info-on-russian-cybercriminal-groups.html Publish Date: 2026-07-04 01:10:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d3fkdmlbzjtjd3.cloudfront.net\/articulos\/articulos-83316.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25,57],"class_list":["post-285556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285558,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285556\/revisions\/285558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}