Cybercrime, Cyberwar, Cybersecurity

Cybercrime presents global challenge – and business opportunities

December 29, 2016

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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Spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry accuses Facebook of working with ISIS

December 22, 2016

Maria Zakharova, the colorful spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, accused Facebook administrators of working for the Islamic State, after the network temporarily unpublished one of her posts on Monday. Shortly after Moscow formally confirmed the death of Andrei Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Zakharova posted a photograph on Facebook, showing Karlov standing in front of …

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Cybersecurity company Wallarm secures $2.3 million after graduating Y Combinator

December 14, 2016

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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Putin’s new information security doctrine: Russia’s cyberspace vulnerabilities in a nutshell

December 14, 2016

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 …

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Russian banks targeted by massive cyberattacks

December 6, 2016

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 …

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Russia expects a taste of its own cyber medicine

December 7, 2016

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 …

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Microsoft investigated by Russian antitrust body after Kaspersky complaint

November 15, 2016

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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Was a Trump server communicating with Russia?

November 15, 2016

In late spring, US malware hunters placed themselves in a high state of alarm. Word arrived that Russian hackers had infiltrated the servers of the Democratic National Committee, an attack persuasively detailed by the respected cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The computer scientists posited a logical hypothesis, which they set out to rigorously test: If the Russians were …

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Russian spycraft: How the Kremlin hacked its way into a crisis

December 29, 2016

Last Friday the U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) publicly named the Russian government for directing “the recent compromises of emails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations.” It claimed that the disclosures of hacked emails “on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are intended to interfere with …

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How countries like China and Russia are able to control the Internet

October 7, 2016

China, Iran, and others are known to regularly censor content and cut off sections of the internet. This is because, when the physical routes traffic takes are severely limited, it endangers the free flow of information the internet was supposed to provide. Researchers at Harvard attempted to identify these choke points, and determine how easily a …

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Russia begins search for decryption of online messengers

October 5, 2016

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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