Dr. Emmanouil “Manos” Antonakakis runs a cybersecurity lab at Georgia Tech and has attracted millions of dollars from the U.S. government in recent years for Department of Defense research projects such as “Rhamnousia: Attributing Cyber ​​​​Actors Through Tensor Decomposition and Novel Data Acquisition.”

The government filed a lawsuit against Georgia Tech in federal court yesterday, with Antonakakis being the first to be charged. According to the government, neither he nor Georgia Tech followed basic security protocols (and required protocols) for years, knew they were not following those protocols, and then submitted invoices for their DoD projects anyway. (Read the complaint.) The government alleges this is fraud:

Ultimately, DoD paid for military technology that defendants stored in an environment that was not secured against unauthorized disclosure, and defendants failed to even monitor for breaches so that they and DoD could be alerted if information was compromised. What DoD received for its funds was of diminished or no value, not the benefit of its agreement.