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 …
Russian hackers get jail time for online banking thefts Read More
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 …
From Russia with Code: The next generation of cybercrime Read More
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 …
Pro-Ukrainian hackers break into Russian State Duma website Read More
Sarov, one of Russia’s largest centers for nuclear research, is heading for diversification. The federal government is considering drawing upon the solid scientific ecosystem of the city, 460km east of Moscow, to create a major hub for IT and cyber security research. A leading nuclear weapons design area in the USSR that did not appear …
Russia’s A-bomb nest may become major cyber security R&D hub Read More
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 …
Russian government paper’s site taken down by pro-Ukraine hackers Read More
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
Russian mobile users suffered most from malware attacks last year, according to the most recent global mobile threat landscape analysis conducted by Kaspersky Lab, the leading Russian IT security company. With 40% of all of its unique mobile users attacked last year, Russia far outpaced India (8%), Vietnam (4%), Ukraine (4%) and the United Kingdom …
Russia number one target for global mobile malware in 2013; consumer finances most at risk 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 …
The Kartoxa virus: Blame corporate complacency, not Russian hackers Read More
Keeping with their prior attempts to keep Westerners as far away as possible from Russians’ Internet activity, Russian secret service agents have recently advised regional government officials across Russia to use domestic webmail services and stay away from overseas ones, such as Google’s Gmail. The recommendation, still off the record, came earlier this month from …
Telegram, a recently launched instant messenger, offers users encryption protection too sophisticated even for security agencies to overcome, the Russian business daily Vedomosti quoted Pavel Durov, a prominent Russian businessman, as saying. The founder and CEO of VKontakte, Russia’s number one social network, Durov is also the mastermind behind the Telegram project, which came online …
New instant messenger Telegram protected even from spy intrusions – Pavel Durov Read More
Runa Capital, a $135 million venture fund with offices in Moscow and California, has just announced an investment in Wallarm, a startup with Russian origins that develops solutions to protect online businesses from application-level attacks by hackers. The exact amount of the capital injection has not been disclosed. Runa’s PR Director Liliana Pertenava only said to …
Runa Capital invests in IT security startup Wallarm Read More
Last week ID Quantique (IDQ), a Geneva-based company that develops commercial encryption technologies based on the principles of quantum physics, raised $5.6 million in funding from Quantum Wave Capital (QWave Capital), a Moscow-based venture fund operating internationally. QWave Capital gained a significant but minority stake in IDQ thanks to the funding, $4.5 million of which was …
QWave Capital invests $5.6 million in Switzerland’s ID Quantique Read More
