The United States has indicted three Russian intelligence officers for their role in a yearslong, global hacking campaign that targeted some 500 energy companies both in the U.S. and across more than 130 countries, according to the Department of Justice.

According to one indictment, newly unsealed on Thursday, the alleged Russian FSB operatives — Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Gavrilov, and Marat Valeryevich Tyukov — worked for years to hack energy firms in a bid to further Russia’s effort to “maintain surreptitious, unauthorized and persistent access” to energy industry networks.

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