Cybersecurity

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

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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Kaspersky Antivirus accused of creating fake malware for over 10 years

February 15, 2016

Here’s a crazy report: Kaspersky Lab, makers of a popular antivirus service, might have created fake malware for over ten years to harm its competitors. The software was benign, but Kaspersky fooled other antivirus software into marking it as infected. Two ex-employees told Reuters that the clandestine attack was originally meant to punish smaller rivals that Kaspersky felt were …

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NSA and GHCQ targeted Kaspersky Lab and other antivirus developers, say Snowden documents

February 17, 2016

New documents provided by former American secret service employee-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden claim that the U.S. and UK security services have been carrying out attacks against antivirus developers around the world, including Russian company Kaspersky Lab. On June 23 the American news site The Intercept cited documents belonging to former American secret service employee Edward Snowden as saying that America’s …

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Can your iron attack you? Kaspersky says ‘yes’

June 29, 2015

Last week, public attention was once again drawn to one of the most secretive and controversial figures of the Russian IT industry – Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of the prominent anti-virus company. Immediately after Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. and British security services had worked to subvert the company’s anti-virus software to track users …

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Russia and China decoded encrypted Snowden files, MI6 forced to pull spies out of hostile countries, say UK authorities

June 22, 2015

MI6 has pulled its spies out of ‘hostile countries’ and America’s intelligence agencies are on high alert after Russia and China cracked encrypted files leaked by fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden. The top-secret documents contain information that could lead to the identification of British and American spies, according to senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and …

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Putin spokesman dismisses theory Russians hacked into White House

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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Russian programmer discusses fitness bracelets and ‘smart watch’ security

April 15, 2015

Roman Unuchek, an expert on mobile threats from the Kaspersky Lab, has been able to break into dozens of fitness bracelets while testing their security. He spoke about his research and the possible consequences for users of the devices on his blog. A special application for mobile devices that employs Bluetooth LE technology is used for …

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Kaspersky shares your computer secrets in weekly sauna meetings with Russian secret service, asserts Bloomberg

February 25, 2016

“The company securing your Internet has close ties to Russian spies,” Bloomberg asserts in a story published last week. The news agency sees a predestination to spying in every milestone of the life of Kaspersky Labs founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky: “He was educated at a KGB-sponsored cryptography institute, then worked for Russian military intelligence, and in …

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Report: ISIS hackers attacked 600 Russian Internet resources in 2014

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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Russia’s SBT Venture Capital invests in Californian provider of e-commerce risk management solutions

February 25, 2016

Earlier this week SBT Venture Capital, the venture arm of Russia’s national savings bank Sberbank, announced that it has invested in IdentityMind Global, a Palo Alto, California-based provider of risk management solutions for e-commerce. Also participating in the round – the amount of which has not been disclosed – were Benhamou Global Ventures, Cybernaut Venture Capital and Lakewood & Company, the …

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Russia to create cyber security council

March 16, 2015

Earlier this month Russian Vice-Premier Dmitry Rogozin ordered the creation of a council for cyber security that will operate under the Military Industrial Commission. An inter-departmental working group for information security would also be set up. “Mr. Rogozin ordered the creation of a council for cyber security within the framework of the Military Industrial Commission …

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