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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The drug transactions plaguing some Moscow neighborhoods begin in drug supermarkets hidden online in the deepest reaches of the “dark web.” Here, hundreds of eager suppliers compete to satisfy their customers’ sophisticated palettes. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are the legal tender here. In exchange, buyers are issued GPS coordinates to the spot where their purchases await …
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A massive cyber attack wrought havoc on energy, transport and government computer systems in Ukraine and Russia on June 27, and appeared to be spreading rapidly beyond these countries, with reports of disruptions also in Denmark, Romania, Spain and the UK. A Moscow-based cyber security firm, Group-IB, said it appeared to be a coordinated attack …
Pop star Britney Spears’ Instagram account was used by Russian hackers as a secret bulletin board to place coded messages that were part of a malware scheme, a security company reported. Slovakian antivirus company ESET said in a blog post that it had found encoded messages in the comments section of Spears’ account that, when scanned by …
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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State prosecutors in Moscow have ordered Russia’s Investigative Committee to find out how hackers gained access to an opposition activist’s Telegram account last year, according to the news agency RBC. Investigators initially declined to open a case into complaints by Oleg Kozlovsky, who says his Telegram account was accessed illegally in April 2016. According to Kozlovsky, the …
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 …
