Flying under the radar on Clownstrike Day last week, two members of the hacktivist crew Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR) are the latest additions to the US sanctions list.
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Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, named by the US government as CARR's leader and attacker, respectively, were named for their alleged roles in attacks on US critical national infrastructure.
Although much of CARR's work since its inception in 2022 revolved around what the US Treasury Department describes as "low-impact, unsophisticated DDoS attacks in Ukraine", the group was blamed for various attacks on US and European water facilities earlier this year.
Back in January, CARR claimed responsibility for attacks on human machine interfaces (HMIs) controlling OT systems in the US and Poland via its Telegram channel. Water supply, hydropower, wastewater and energy facilities were affected by remote actuation of controls, which also caused water storage tanks to overflow in Abernathy and Muleshoe, Texas. Tens of thousands of gallons of water were lost, officials said.
