Cybercrime, Cyberwar, Cybersecurity

Operation ‘Ghost Click:’ How international police operation dismantled major Russian and Estonian cybercrime system

November 14, 2011 November 14, 2011

The Estonian police arrested six men (Vladimir Tsastsin, Timur Gerasimenko, Dmitri Yegorov, Valeri Alekseyev, Konstantin Poltev, and Anton Ivanov) last week for organized cybercrime activities on an international scale. The six men are accused of operating various companies that masqueraded as legitimate publisher networks in the Internet advertising industry from 2007 to October of 2011.

Moscow couple charged with video piracy with over $1 billion in damages

November 3, 2011 November 3, 2011

Moscow residents Andrey and Natalya Lopukhov have been charged with Internet video piracy, with Russian and international copyright owners seeking damages estimated at over 38 billion rubles, or $1.26 billion. The Russian Office of the Prosecutor General ordered the couple to be arraigned in court on criminal charges, the Russian press reported last week.

ChronoPay owner Vrublevsky pleads guilty in cyber attack case, court extends detention

November 2, 2011 November 2, 2011

Moscow city court confirmed almost two months of extended detention for prominent Russian Internet businessman Pavel Vrublevsky, who is expected to be held until December 23. The court has rejected an appeal filed by Vrublevsky’s attorneys to release the entrepreneur on bail for 30 million rubles, a sum of almost $1 million. Vrublevsky, 32, was …

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Russian authorities block huge new personal data leak

October 3, 2011 February 15, 2017

On Thursday, October 1, a group of anonymous Russian citizens launched Rusleaks, a web site providing open access to a significant volume of personal and corporate data from a variety sources, including highly confidential ones such as the databases of Russian tax service and law enforcement agencies. The site was no more accessible today after …

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Russian hacker stole $3.2 million from US organizations in 6 months

September 16, 2011 September 16, 2011

Tokyo-based cyber security firm TrendMicro revealed on Wednesday a major cyber theft of $3.2 million in six months starting in January 2011. The young hacker, nicknamed “Soldier”, resides in Russia, the firm believes. TrendMicro reported on this case in the company’s weblog this Wednesday.

Russia and Singapore to develop IT projects

September 15, 2011 September 15, 2011

Senior Russian and Singaporean representatives meeting at bilateral commission in Moscow on Tuesday have agreed to develop cooperation in the information technology sector – in particular in the sphere of personal data security.

UK hackers take down Russian embassy site

September 12, 2011 September 12, 2011

The website of the Russian Embassy in London was knocked offline on Sunday by UK-based protestors objecting to a visit to Russia by the British prime minister, David Cameron. The Russian Embassy site was brought down by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in protest at the first trip to Russia by a British leader …

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Russian security firm Group-IB sets foot on US market

September 12, 2011 September 12, 2011

Moscow based Group-IB, a provider of cybercrime investigative and forensic services, announced last week that it has opened its first overseas office in New York. The new office will be responsible for company’s expansion into the North American market.

Personal data law comes into full force, Medvedev signs more restrictive amendments

August 2, 2011 February 15, 2017

Last week, President Medvedev signed certain amendments to the Russian law on personal data, which hardened the legal obligations on all organizations – both corporate and state sector – dealing with personal data. Although the law was voted by the Russian parliament in 2006 – one year after Russia ratified the Council of Europe’s 1981 Strasbourg …

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Search engine data leaks shocks Russian Internet community

July 29, 2011 July 29, 2011

Russia’s Internet community was shocked by a series of major private information leaks during only one week and amid the adoption of a new law aimed to protect personal data. The vulnerabilities of Russian websites came to light for the first time last Monday, when some 8,000 text messages sent by clients of the Russian …

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Web Sheriff vs. Web Sheriff: “Digital Cold War” declared between British and Russian anti-piracy companies

July 14, 2011 July 14, 2011

Web Sheriff Ltd., a London-based company protecting online rights against infringements, announced last week it “fired the first shots in an international legal battle against an alleged Russian imposter” – namely Iks Media Digital, a Moscow-based company offering similar services to the Russian market under the same trademark.

Chronopay founder arrested for cyber attack on competitor Assist

June 27, 2011 June 27, 2011

Pavel Vrublevsky, the founder and main owner of electronic payment company ChronoPay, was arrested last Thursday, being suspected of having organized a cyber attack on the website of Assist, a competitor ChronoPay, in an attempt to block payment transactions with the Aeroflot website.

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