Cybercrime

New accelerator to invest up to $15 million in cyber security startups

November 13, 2015 December 26, 2018

Russian cyber security startups now have a dedicated accelerator with up to 1 billion rubles (around $15 million at the current exchange rate) potentially invested over the next two years. The effort is backed by Rostec, a major Russian state-owned tech corporation, via its subsidiary RT-Inform, systems integrator I-Teco, and the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (FRII in Russian, the country’s largest …

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The Dukes: Seven years of Russian cyber-espionage

October 21, 2015 February 12, 2016

Last month Finnish computer security firm F-Secure released a white paper on “the Dukes,” a cyber-espionage group which is believed to have been working for the Russian government since at least 2008. According to F-Secure, the Dukes (sometimes also referred to as APT29) collect intelligence in support of foreign and security policy decision-making. The group employs a wide arsenal …

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Russia’s online security second-worst in the world – Report

September 22, 2015 February 28, 2017

Russia suffered the second-largest number of confidential data leaks in the first half of this year but company employees themselves are to blame for most of them, the Kommersant business daily reported Tuesday. The analysis center of InfoWatch, a Moscow-based online security company, said more than 262 million personal data records had been compromised as …

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Russian government hired people to hack the Tor browser – but they failed

September 10, 2015 February 14, 2016

A company hired by the Russian Interior Ministry to identify users of the Tor network, an anonymous Internet browser, has announced its plans to terminate its state contract without finishing the task. According to the Russian business daily Kommersant, the Russian Interior Ministry signed a series of contracts in 2013 and in 2014 with a company called “the …

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Russia prime suspect in cyber attack against US military, say US officials

August 7, 2015 February 16, 2016

Russia is the leading suspect in a sophisticated cyber attack on the unclassified email network of the U.S. military’s Joint Staff that prompted the Pentagon last month to restrict access to portions of that network, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Early reports firmly linked Russia to the attack, said one U.S. official, who declined to be named since the investigation is still underway. “It was a spearphishing attack …

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Putin spokesman dismisses theory Russians hacked into White House

April 8, 2015 February 25, 2016

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov scoffed at a CNN report that claimed Russian hackers may have breached the White House’s computer system and accessed sensitive information pertaining to U.S. President Barack Obama, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Wednesday. “We know that blaming Russia for everything has turned into a sport,” Peskov told journalists when asked …

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Report: ISIS hackers attacked 600 Russian Internet resources in 2014

March 27, 2015 February 25, 2016

Hackers from the self-proclaimed Islamic State attacked 600 Russian Internet resources last year, according to a report by Russian Internet security company Group-IB. The research used the Bot-Trek Cyber Intelligence technology, which is intended to track preparation and implementation of cyber attacks. According to preliminary estimates, several banks, construction companies, plants, governmental organizations and even …

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Bank hackers steal millions via malware, reports Kaspersky Lab

February 15, 2015 February 26, 2016

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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Is Russia’s cyberwar heating up amid new Cold War?

November 26, 2014 November 26, 2014

A recent influx of reports about Russian electronic espionage activity has prompted fresh concerns that the Kremlin may be gunning for a cyberwar with the West. Not everyone is convinced: Russian IT analysts interviewed by The Moscow Times were more inclined to blame the spike in attack reports on media hype and cybersecurity companies exploiting …

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Russia to block piracy websites permanently after one copyright violation

November 25, 2014 March 1, 2016

Starting next May, websites guilty of more than one copyright violation will be permanently blocked in the country. The move comes as part of a new anti-piracy bill signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, ramping up what many critics see as an already draconian set of copyright protection rules. Once a website is blocked by a court decision, it cannot be unblocked, according to the …

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Hacking trail leads to Russia, experts say

October 28, 2014 October 28, 2014

Earlier this year, investigators for Silicon Valley security company FireEye Inc. visited a U.S. firm to determine who, and what, sneaked into the firm’s network harboring military secrets. There they found what they call a sophisticated cyberweapon, able to evade detection and hop between computers walled off from the Internet. The spy tool was programmed on Russian-language …

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Mobile banking botnet creator arrested for the first time in Russia

September 18, 2014 September 18, 2014

Global Internet security company Group-IB has assisted the Directorate K of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to investigate and suppress the activities of a criminal group that specialized in stealing funds from the bank accounts of individuals. Towards the end of 2013, the security service of Sberbank detected a cyber-attack on owners of Android …

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