A Russian hacker has pled guilty in a U.S court to aiding in the theft of $1.6 million, international media reported Monday. Vadim Polyakov, 32, was the leader of a $1.6-million international ticket-scamming ring. He hacked into more than 1,000 accounts on U.S. ticket sales website StubHub. Using the credit card details attached to the …
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More than six months after its launch, Russia’s national bank card MIR is already supported by more than a hundred Russian banks, 13 of which actually issue the card, according to the Russian central bank’s subsidiary NSPC (or NSPK), which operates the MIR card. Card acceptance is not ubiquitous yet in Russia, however, if judging by the …
Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has ruled the final results of the Democratic Coalition’s online primaries void after their website came under attack from hackers. Personal data belonging to thousands of opposition voters was leaked online after the coalition’s website was targeted. The CEC ruled that it was impossible to establish any final results. “Due …
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Earlier this week Nikita Kuzmin, a 28-year old Russian citizen who created the Gozi malware, was released from US prison after being sentenced in a federal court to time served (37 months). Kuzmin was also ordered to pay forfeiture and restitution in the amount of nearly $7 million. Kuzmin pled guilty to the computer intrusion and …
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For two years, SpyEye was the world’s most destructive piece of malware targeting banks and financial institutions, infecting more than 50 million PCs and causing estimated damage of $1 billion. The malware, created by a young Russian hacker who liked to brag of its malevolence, was secretly installed on victims’ computers, spread via spam emails and malicious websites, and worked by silently …
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Yesterday Kaspersky Lab announced a partnership with big data analytics company SynerScope “to build a unique and innovative offering in the fight against fraud and financially based cybercrime.” This new offering will combine Kaspersky Lab’s fraud prevention solutions with SynerScope’s ultra-fast big data analytics technologies. The partnership will provide cybersecurity solutions, crisis response and anti-fraud …
Russian authorities in November raided offices associated with a Moscow film distribution and production company as part of a crackdown on one of the world’s most notorious financial hacking operations, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. Cybersecurity experts said a password-stealing software program known as Dyre — believed to be responsible for …
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Rutracker.org, the world’s largest Russian-language torrents website, has deprived copyright holders of the ability to delete illegal downloads, the IT-website Roem.Ru reported Tuesday. “It has been announced officially (…) that all CNA-accounts [which granted copyright holders the authority to delete links to illegal downloads] have been switched to regular user mode,” Oleg Yashin from the intellectual …
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Finland’s Justice Ministry has decided to extradite to the United States Maxim Senakh, a Russian citizen accused of illegal hacking. According to Senakh’s lawyer, Igor Khitrukhin, Finnish authorities decided on January 5 to send Senakh to the US, though he wasn’t informed until January 8. Khitrukhin says the move is politically motivated and promises to appeal …
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Put under pressure by the Russian authorities to put an end to the “total anonymity” of user exchanges, Telegram intends to keep its users’ personal data and communication fully confidential. The international instant messenger will not allow security agencies to access such content, stated Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov on his Vkontakte account. “We have not issued and will …
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Group-IB, a Moscow-based cybercrime investigation company operating globally, has just published its 2015 report on cybercrime trends in Russian and beyond. Analyzing the situation in Russia and the former Soviet Union, Group-IB’s analysts expect the following trends to play out in the next six months: Mobile users are increasingly exposed to cybercrime Following the growing penetration of mobile …
When ISIS terrorists want to hide what they’re saying, they are increasingly turning to an app called Telegram. It’s “the new hot thing among jihadists,” said Laith Alkhouri, director of Research at Flashpoint Global Partners. Telegram, an international instant messenger founded by Pavel Durov in 2013, boasts two layers of encryption and claims to be “faster and more …
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