Russia has been ranked third worldwide in terms of the stability of its national Internet when facing possible breaches. Only the UK and U.S. networks are deemed to be more reliable. One of the main advantages of the Russian segment of the Internet, also known as RuNet, is its extensive infrastructure: there are more than …
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Kaspersky Lab, the global cyber-security firm, is leading an invasion of Dublin by Russian technology companies, start-ups, programmers and developers – many of whom are looking abroad as Russia remains stuck in recession and worries grow over the political and legal environment there. The Moscow-based company, which is the fourth biggest seller of anti-virus software, is planning to open a …
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Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has ruled the final results of the Democratic Coalition’s online primaries void after their website came under attack from hackers. Personal data belonging to thousands of opposition voters was leaked online after the coalition’s website was targeted. The CEC ruled that it was impossible to establish any final results. “Due …
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Russian intelligence agencies were probably responsible for a massive cyber attack on Germany’s lower house of parliament last year which forced its computer systems to be shut down for days, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said on Friday. The agency, known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), said a hacker group …
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Earlier this week Nikita Kuzmin, a 28-year old Russian citizen who created the Gozi malware, was released from US prison after being sentenced in a federal court to time served (37 months). Kuzmin was also ordered to pay forfeiture and restitution in the amount of nearly $7 million. Kuzmin pled guilty to the computer intrusion and …
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For two years, SpyEye was the world’s most destructive piece of malware targeting banks and financial institutions, infecting more than 50 million PCs and causing estimated damage of $1 billion. The malware, created by a young Russian hacker who liked to brag of its malevolence, was secretly installed on victims’ computers, spread via spam emails and malicious websites, and worked by silently …
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Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian Internet search company, announced today an update of its in-house browser to include a built-in domain name system protection feature – DNSCrypt. DNSCrypt is a protocol that authenticates communications between a browser requesting a DNS address of a website and a DNS server offering this address. “Provided by renowned DNS security expert, OpenDNS, …
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Last week the NATO Centre of excellence in Riga unveiled the results of research into what it claims is a “preparatory information war” in Latvia but with, it emerges, much wider repercussions. One project examined 200,000 comments posted on Latvia’s three main online news portals between 29 July and 5 August 2014. It found 1.45% of those …
Europe’s new cold war turns digital as Vladimir Putin expands media offensive Read More
Yesterday Kaspersky Lab announced a partnership with big data analytics company SynerScope “to build a unique and innovative offering in the fight against fraud and financially based cybercrime.” This new offering will combine Kaspersky Lab’s fraud prevention solutions with SynerScope’s ultra-fast big data analytics technologies. The partnership will provide cybersecurity solutions, crisis response and anti-fraud …
Last week a top Russian military official revealed plans for a United Nations-backed plan to ban cyberwarfare attacks in peacetime between all leading powers. “The first step in this direction will be the signing of the Electronic Non-Aggression Pact, which will be signed under the auspices of the UN,” Yury Kuznetsov, head of the Russian …
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Russian authorities in November raided offices associated with a Moscow film distribution and production company as part of a crackdown on one of the world’s most notorious financial hacking operations, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. Cybersecurity experts said a password-stealing software program known as Dyre — believed to be responsible for …
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Rutracker.org, the world’s largest Russian-language torrents website, has deprived copyright holders of the ability to delete illegal downloads, the IT-website Roem.Ru reported Tuesday. “It has been announced officially (…) that all CNA-accounts [which granted copyright holders the authority to delete links to illegal downloads] have been switched to regular user mode,” Oleg Yashin from the intellectual …
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