The United States said on Wednesday that it had secretly removed malware from computer networks around the world in recent weeks, a step to pre-empt Russian cyberattacks and send a message to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The move, made public by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, comes as U.S. officials warn that Russia …
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A Russian technology executive who was named in a dossier containing unverified allegations about connections between President Trump and the Russian government has sued BuzzFeed News, which published the information. The defamation suit was filed in court on Friday in Broward County, Fla., according to lawyers for the executive, Aleksej Gubarev, the chief of XBT, …
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Smartphone users in Russia can no longer download the LinkedIn app on iPhone or Android devices, following a similar move in China to block The New York Times app on iPhones. The demand by Russian authorities to remove LinkedIn in Apple and Google app stores comes weeks after a court blocked the professional networking service for flouting local laws that require internet firms …
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While much about Russia’s cyberwarfare program is shrouded in secrecy, details of the government’s effort to recruit programmers in recent years — whether professionals, college students, or even criminals — are shedding some light on the Kremlin’s plan to create elite teams of computer hackers. For more than three years, rather than rely on military officers …
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Russian hackers — possibly the same group that compromised the Democratic National Committee’s computer servers two months ago — have made top American athletes their latest target. Joining an intercontinental dispute over sports doping, the hackers penetrated the World Anti-Doping Agency’s athlete database and publicly revealed private medical information about three of the United States’ …
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WikiLeaks’ document releases, along with many of Julian Assange’s statements, have often benefited Russia, at the expense of the West — whether by conviction, convenience or coincidence, writes the New York Times. WikiLeaks neither targets not spares any particular nation, Assange indicated in an exchange with the US newspaper, but rather works to verify whatever material …
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On Tuesday, citing United States officials briefed on the matter, CNN reported that The New York Times’s Moscow bureau, along with other news organizations it did not identify, had been the victims of computer breaches by hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence. But so far, there is no evidence that the hackers, believed to be …
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In late 2013, an A.T.M. in Kiev started dispensing cash at seemingly random times of day. No one had put in a card or touched a button. Cameras showed that the piles of money had been swept up by customers who appeared lucky to be there at the right moment. But when a Russian cybersecurity …
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A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say. The records, discovered by Hold Security, a firm in Milwaukee, include confidential material gathered from 420,000 websites, including household names, and small Internet …
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