Microsoft is going after Fancy Bear, the Russian hacking group that targeted the DNC, by wresting control of domain names controlled by the foreign spies. This new offensive by Microsoft has been control-alt-deleting segments of the Russian hacking apparatus, reports The Daily Beast. Microsoft’s approach is indirect but effective. Rather than getting physical custody of the servers, which Fancy Bear rents from …
Just days after company founder Eugene Kaspersky announced his readiness to have Kaspersky Lab’s source code examined by the US administration, suspicions about his ties to the Kremlin have been fuelled again by Bloomberg. The agency claims to have obtained internal company emails showing that “Kaspersky Lab has maintained a much closer working relationship with the FSB, …
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The chief executive of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab says he’s ready to have his company’s source code examined by US government officials to help dispel long-lingering suspicions about his company’s ties to the Kremlin. In an interview last week with The Associated Press at his Moscow headquarters, Eugene Kaspersky said that he’s also ready to move …
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Sberbank, Russia’s national savings bank, has not found any potential US cyber-weapons in its systems after screening, the bank told Bloomberg and East-West Digital News today. However, Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chief executive in charge of cybersecurity, characterized such a threat as “theoretically possible” in Russian infrastructure. Kuznetsov’s comments come as an answer to recent reports …
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Russian security software maker Kaspersky Lab has filed antitrust complaints against Microsoft with the European Commission and the German federal cartel office, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Kaspersky Lab said Microsoft was abusing its dominance in the PC operating system market, creating obstacles for independent software security vendors by distributing its own Defender …
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Countries across the globe are scrambling to learn lessons from last week’s global cyber attack, and Russia is no exception. Cyber security experts hope that the publicity from the ransomware attack may have a positive outcome by making individuals and companies pay more attention to their information security. The ransomware dubbed “WannaCry” that attacked computers …
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Russia’s sovereign fund RDIF has acquired a minority stake in InfoWatch Group, which includes InfoWatch, Cezurity, Taiga and Attack Killer brands. InfoWatch is a leading Russian vendor of end-to-end enterprise cybersecurity solutions. The company is worth more than $100 million, according to its President Natalya Kaspersky. The funding will help InfoWatch Group “improve the export potential, localize its enterprise cybersecurity …
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Earlier this month WikiLeaks published over 8,700 classified CIA-related files. The documents contained information that it was possible to “write a reliable exploit” for the company’s anti-virus software “without any real effort” and that Kaspersky Lab had not fixed vulnerabilities revealed during a hacking conference in 2014. “Kaspersky Lab is thoroughly studying the report published on WikiLeaks on March 7, 2017 in order to make …
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Cybersecurity specialists at the Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have launched Earth-2050 to try and predict how the world will fare in 10, 20 and 30 years. Forecasts vary wildly, ranging from food riots to couch potato utopias. “Thinking about the future is our job,” said the creators of the website, Earth-2050, all of whom are employees of Moscow-based …
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Yesterday, as reported by The New York Times, the Justice Department on Wednesday charged two Russian intelligence officers with directing a sweeping criminal conspiracy that broke into 500 million Yahoo accounts in 2014. The Russian government then used the information it obtained from the intelligence officers and two others named in the indictment — a Russian hacker …
The amount of malicious software on mobile devices around the world tripled in 2016 compared with 2015, reaching 8.5 million, according to a report by Kaspersky Lab, the cyber security company, the RBK daily reports. The root of the problem is virus-containing malware that users inadvertently install on their devices, for example, when buying a dubious app in a shop. Russia …
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A top cyber-security specialist in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has been arrested on charges of treason, the Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday. Sergei Mikhailov, deputy chief at the FSB’s Information Security Center (CDC), stands accused of receiving money from “foreign organizations,” Kommersant reported, citing unnamed FSB sources. Mikhailov has been detained in pre-trial detention since December 2016, …
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