Russian hackers attacked the U.S. financial system in mid-August, infiltrating and stealing data from JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and at least one other bank, an incident the FBI is investigating as a possible retaliation for government-sponsored sanctions, according to two people familiar with the probe. The attack resulted in the loss of gigabytes of sensitive data, …
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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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Access to online services of the Mail.ru Group has been blocked in Italy by order of a Roman court. The Russian portal is on a list of 25 websites, along with filesharing and video streaming sites, that face allegations of piracy, Mail.ru Group reports. The group stated that it became aware of the problem after …
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In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert. The signal was coming from Nasdaq (NDAQ). It looked like malware had snuck into the company’s central servers. There were indications that the intruder was not a kid somewhere, but the intelligence agency of another country. More troubling still: When …
According to a report released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, Russia saw a decline in phishing incidents for the 1st quarter of 2014. The number of IP addresses located in the Russian territory, from where fraudulent activities were carried out, decreased considerably and stood at an average of 1.6% in the first quarter of 2014 …
As Russia is seeking to lessen its reliance on foreign technology and digital services, Ukraine has also undertaken measures with its parliament recommending to cease using Russian-created software in state agencies. Software created in Russia may carry cyber threat, believe the proponents of the bill – MPs Oleksandr Mochkov from Udar and Valeriy Omelchenko from the Party of Regions, – which was adopted on …
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After an investigation initiated by the security service of Sberbank, Russia’s national savings bank, the activities of an organized criminal group of hackers that specialize in stealing money from the bank accounts of companies have been suppressed. This was achieved thanks to joint efforts by the Bureau of Special Technical Measures (BSTM) and the Russian FSB Information …
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In an empty Japanese restaurant on the northeast outskirts of Moscow, Nikita Kislitsin, a 28-year-old Russian with blond hair, blue eyes and translucent skin, is showing me how to pull off a multimillion-dollar cyberheist on his MacBook Air. The ace hacker is methodical; his slim fingers click quickly through a series of applications to activate …
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The cyber-war between participants of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict carries on. Yesterday evening hackers posted an anti-Russian message on the webpage of the Russian State Duma’s Committee on Regional Politics and Problems with the North and Far East, on behalf of Russian Communist Party member Nikolay Kharitonov. The message was about how “all of the power of …
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Hackers have taken down several Russian media website in the past week and alleged attacks on defense infrastructure in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Among the latest victims, on March 7, was the website of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, one of the largest Russian dailies, the paper of record of the Russian government, and the parent …
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A man was sentenced to probation after being convicted for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks as a result of Group-IB and the The Ministry of the Interior (MVD) collaboration work. Group-IB assisted in the investigation, collection, preservation and identification of digital evidence. The criminal business owner turned out to be a 26-year-old resident of …
26-year-old hacker responsible for massive DDoS-attacks sentenced in Russia Read More
The Kaptoxa virus, which was used to steal more than 70 million credit card numbers in the United States, was “partly written in Russian”, according to a Wall Street Journal article published on January 17. The newspaper cited a report prepared by iSight Partners Inc. and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Kaptoxa, incidentally, is …
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