Russia dismisses hacking claims as 'fantasies'

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News ID: 29698
Publish Date: 13:50 - 04 October 2018
TEHRAN, October 04 - Russia's foreign ministry has denied allegations by British and Australian authorities that the Russian military intelligence agency GRU was behind a fresh wave of global cybercrimes.

Russia dismisses hacking claims as 'fantasies'TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday dismissed the new accusations as "big fantasies."

Britain's National Cyber Security Center cited four new attacks associated with the GRU targeting the World Anti-Doping agency, Ukrainian transport systems, the 2016 U.S. presidential race and others.

British officials earlier blamed the GRU for the March nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury.

Source: AP

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