A news release from US DoJ on 14 September announced that the defendants, all former employees of the US Intelligence Community or the US military, entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) that restricts their future activities and employment and requires the payment of $1,685,000 in penalties to resolve a DoJ investigation regarding violations of US export control, computer fraud and access device fraud laws. They worked as senior managers at a UAE-based company that supported and carried out computer network exploitation operations (i.e., “hacking”) for the benefit of the UAE government between 2016 and 2019.
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