Russia’s cyber army ranks fifth in the world, reports the Kommersant business daily, citing a study prepared by ZecurionAnalytics. “The analysis is based on data from published sources — military budgets, opinions of experts and officials, background information from international organizations, and etc.,” said Vladimir Ulyanov, director of ZecurionAnalytics’ analytical department. The company does not publish information about financing and …
Hackers may be associated around the world with Russia above any other country, thanks to news reports that often describe cybercriminals as Russian, and to accusations this year that Russian hackers were behind attacks on the U.S. Democratic National Committee. The problem, however, is very much a global one, international experts agreed at the Skolkovo …
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Wallarm, a cybersecurity startup with Russian roots, has just secured $2.3 million in equity funding. The round involved Gagarin Capital — an investment firm which is particularly active in Eastern Europe, having backed MSQRD and Prisma, — Partech Ventures and unnamed individual investors. A resident of Skolkovo, the Russian international tech hub under completion, Wallarm has developed “a complete solution for blocking …
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On December 6, 2016, President Vladimir Putin ratified Russia’s new Information Security Doctrine to replace a document that was in force since September 2000. This official document defines the main sources of threats against Russia in cyberspace and offers solutions to deal with them. The document was part of Russia’s national security strategy, which was …
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 …
Russia, demonized as the biggest cyber-villain in the world in the wake of the U.S. election campaign, must now take special care of its own information security. Its adversaries don’t just possess powerful cyber-spying and offensive capabilities — they suspect Russian involvement in every incident, and that makes Russia vulnerable to all kinds of retaliation. After it …
Last Thursday, Russian antitrust authority said it had opened an investigation into Microsoft for allegedly abusing its dominance in the antivirus software market. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is investigating whether the tech giant is in violation of Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law ‘On Protection of Competition,‘ which prohibits companies occupying dominant …
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Russian companies have begun searching for ways to fully decipher intercepted messages on popular platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the Kommersant newspaper reported Tuesday. Decryption of messages is a key provision of the recently-passed anti-terror law authored by conservative lawmaker, Irina Yarovaya. As part of the wide-ranging law, all companies providing online communication are …
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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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The Kremlin has already begun work on plans to monitor and decrypt Russia’s online traffic in real-time, Kommersant has reported. According to the Russian business daily, Natalya Kaspersky, CEO of cyber-security firm InfoWatch and a member of the Kremlin’s IT and Sovereignty working group, confirmed that talks on the project were already under way. Kaspersky later denied the claims, saying that the newspaper had “twisted her words.” The …
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Earlier this year, the Kremlin tasked the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian) to develop develop a new secure messaging service for government. Concerned that foreign governments could access secret Russian information shared via Western apps such as WhatsApp and Viber, officials expressed concerns that Russia’s security agencies were unable to crack encryption if …
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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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