South Plains
CRIME & SAFETY
Feds sanction Russian hackers who infiltrated Muleshoe, Abernathy municipal water systems
The United States Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned two leaders of a Russian hacker group believed to be responsible for infiltrating the public water system infrastructure of several small South Plains towns earlier this year. Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko are the leader and chief hacker, respectively, of a "hacktivist" group known as Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), according to the Treasury. Both have been added to the Treasury Department's sanctions list for their...
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