Over the past few weeks Russian banks have been targeted by several cyberattacks. Some of them were of unusual magnitude, allegedly involving foreign intelligence agencies. Thus earlier this week VTB, a major state-controlled bank, said that its websites had been hit by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. However, the bank’s IT infrastructure “is working as normal …
In late spring, US malware hunters placed themselves in a high state of alarm. Word arrived that Russian hackers had infiltrated the servers of the Democratic National Committee, an attack persuasively detailed by the respected cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The computer scientists posited a logical hypothesis, which they set out to rigorously test: If the Russians were …
On Oct. 19, Yevgeny Nikulin, a suspected Russia hacker, was arrested in Prague by local police working with the FBI. The American side is currently seeking his extradition to the United States. “The Russian Foreign Ministry and embassy in Prague are actively working with the authorities in order to prevent the extradition of a Russian citizen …
China, Iran, and others are known to regularly censor content and cut off sections of the internet. This is because, when the physical routes traffic takes are severely limited, it endangers the free flow of information the internet was supposed to provide. Researchers at Harvard attempted to identify these choke points, and determine how easily a …
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Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for. You might be forgiven for not knowing her work — after all, she has a common name, one that she shares with other similarly successful authors on Amazon. Until this week, she had dozens of health, dieting, cooking, and …
Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian founder of the global software security firm, insists he is non-partisan in a new Cold War that increasingly utilises cyberwarfare to interfere with national politics. In an interview with bne IntelliNews, Kaspersky says allegations that Russia was behind a recent attempt to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s bid for the US presidency was …
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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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The so-called ‘Deep Web’ can help you solve a variety of ‘problems’ — from obtaining forged documents to buying an anti-tank missile system. For some people, using the ‘Deep Web’ is a matter of ideological principle. For others, it’s a technical necessity when breaking the law to avoid publicity. The Russian government is no stranger to censoring …
U.S. officials suspect Russian hackers were responsible for breaking into two state election databases earlier this month. “This is the closest we’ve come to tying a recent hack to the Russian government,” one official told NBC News on Monday. The FBI has not identified the two U.S. states whose data bases were attacked, but Yahoo News, …
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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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The Russian government has been accused of orchestrating a hack that leaked some 20,000 U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails, after which the DNC Chairwoman resigned. The Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, Robby Mook, told reporters Sunday that “some experts” are saying that “this was done by the Russians for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.” …
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An exchange for hacked software just launched in Russia, Expocod.com, is ready to pay tens of thousands dollars for vulnerabilities in popular software such as Linux, Windows, and Adobe. Vulnerabilities are interesting to IT giants that might want to fix them, but also to unscrupulous users who could exploit them for personal gain. Andrei Shorokhov, a …
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