Mention the dark web to security experts and their thoughts necessarily turn to its birthplace—Russia. From simple hack-sharing site origins, Russia’s cybercrime ecosystem has grown to rival that of its government. Ahead of releasing a report on the topic, Charity Wright, formerly with the NSA, and Ariel Ainhoren, Research Team Leader at IntSights, graciously summarized this evolution for us …
Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018, deploying a rare type of malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts, four people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The malware, called Regin, is known to be used by the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance of …
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Data breaches by Russian hackers are a global concern now, but the BBC has discovered how easy it is to buy personal data such as passport and bank account details in Russia itself. According to cyber-security experts, vast quantities of supposedly private data – including from Russian state institutions – are bought and sold every …
Russian data theft: Shady world where all is for sale Read More
Kaspersky Lab has been under fire over the past few years in the USA over concerns that it could provide its clients’ private — and at times secret — information to the Russian government. It turns out, however, that the Russian cybersecurity firm might have helped the National Security Agency (NSA) identify and arrest in …
US media report: Kaspersky helped catch an alleged NSA data thief Read More
US prosecutors have indicted eight people, most of them Russian, for an alleged online fraud involving fake advertising that caused companies to lose tens of millions of dollars, the Justice Department announced late on November 27. In one alleged scheme that began in 2015, two of the accused operated a fake advertising network that used …
US charges six Russians, two Kazakhs in online ad fraud scheme Read More
Avast, a global leader in digital security solutions, has announced an increase in attempts to infect Russians’ browsers with so-called cryptojacking malware in September. In just a month, about 5.1 million such attacks were recorded in Russia, as confirmed by an Avast study. The study has revealed an interesting trend: the frequency of cryptojacking attacks …
Last week Group-IB, a Moscow-based global company that prevents and investigates high-tech crime and fraud, and the Interior Ministry’s Management Academy announced they will work together to train highly qualified specialists for the police. Under the partnership agreement, the two sides will carry out joint research into the prevention, detection and investigation of cybercrime, and exchange information including …
Group-IB teams up with Russian police to train cybersecurity officers Read More
At a Kiev nightclub in the spring of 2012, 24-year-old Ivan Turchynov made a fateful drunken boast to some fellow hackers. For years, Turchynov said, he’d been hacking unpublished press releases from business newswires and selling them, via Moscow-based middlemen, to stock traders for a cut of the sizable profits. Oleksandr Ieremenko, one of the …
How Ukrainian and Russian hackers turned stolen press releases into $100 million Read More
Russian state-backed cyber hackers have been accessing network infrastructure devices worldwide for espionage and preparation for potential future cyberattacks, says a joint Technical Alert about “malicious cyber activity carried out by the Russian government” released by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) earlier this …
US and UK accuse Russian government to sponsor global “malicious cyber activity” Read More
The Russian military was directly behind a “malicious” cyber-attack on Ukraine that spread globally last year, the US and Britain have said. The White House said June’s NotPetya ransomware attack caused billions of dollars in damage across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said Russia was “ripping up the rule book” …
UK and US blame Russia for ‘malicious’ NotPetya cyber-attack Read More
A previously unknown ring of Russian-speaking hackers has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks in the last 18 months, according to a Moscow-based cyber-security firm that runs the largest computer forensics laboratory in eastern Europe. The MoneyTaker group broke into 20 systems, which includes 15 U.S. lenders, targeting ATMs with “mules” …
Hackers linked to Russians target banks from Moscow to Utah Read More
Sometime in 2014, a group of analysts walked into the office of Kaspersky Lab founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky to deliver some sobering news. The company’s anti-virus software had automatically scraped powerful digital surveillance tools off a computer in the United States and the analysts were worried: the data’s headers clearly identified the files as classified. …
Kaspersky: We uploaded classifieds US documents but immediately deleted them Read More
