Cybercrime, Cyberwar, Cybersecurity

Rostec and Citadel to invest more than $60 million in IT security joint venture

July 26, 2018

State corporation Rostec and IT holding Citadel have announced an agreement to launch a joint venture which will create corporate IT products based on military developments in the field of information security. As reported by Russian business daily Kommersant earlier this month, the JV will mainly focus on cryptography, quantum calculations, machine learning, Big Data …

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Rostelecom acquires Solar Security for $23 million to create national cybersecurity center

May 29, 2018

Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom has acquired Solar Security, a major local tech player in the field of target monitoring and information security operational management. Rostelecom spent 1.5 billion rubles (roughly $23 million at the current exchange rate) for this acquisition, as announced last week. As part of the deal, Rostelecom’s existing information security resources, …

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US government considers specific sanctions against Kaspersky Lab

April 27, 2018

Kaspersky Lab could be targeted by specific sanctions “as part of a wider round of action carried out against the Russian government,” CyberScoop reported earlier this week, refering to “US intelligence officials familiar with the matter.” The Russian cybersecurity company has two ongoing lawsuits against the US government, which were filed in response to the recent …

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US and UK accuse Russian government to sponsor global “malicious cyber activity”

April 20, 2018

Russian state-backed cyber hackers have been accessing network infrastructure devices worldwide for espionage and preparation for potential future cyberattacks, says a joint Technical Alert about “malicious cyber activity carried out by the Russian government” released by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) earlier this …

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UK and US blame Russia for ‘malicious’ NotPetya cyber-attack

February 21, 2018

The Russian military was directly behind a “malicious” cyber-attack on Ukraine that spread globally last year, the US and Britain have said. The White House said June’s NotPetya ransomware attack caused billions of dollars in damage across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said Russia was “ripping up the rule book” …

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Hackers linked to Russians target banks from Moscow to Utah

December 20, 2017

A previously unknown ring of Russian-speaking hackers has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks in the last 18 months, according to a Moscow-based cyber-security firm that runs the largest computer forensics laboratory in eastern Europe. The MoneyTaker group broke into 20 systems, which includes 15 U.S. lenders, targeting ATMs with “mules” …

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Kaspersky: We uploaded classifieds US documents but immediately deleted them

October 26, 2017

Sometime in 2014, a group of analysts walked into the office of Kaspersky Lab founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky to deliver some sobering news. The company’s anti-virus software had automatically scraped powerful digital surveillance tools off a computer in the United States and the analysts were worried: the data’s headers clearly identified the files as classified. …

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New wave of cyber attacks hits Russia, other nations

October 25, 2017

Cyber attacks using malware called “BadRabbit” hit Russia and other nations on Tuesday, affecting Russian Interfax news agency and causing flight delays at Ukraine’s Odessa airport. The attacks are disturbing because attackers quickly infected critical infrastructure, including transportation operators, indicating it was a “well-coordinated” campaign, said Robert Lipovsky, a researcher with cyber firm ESET. More …

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Kaspersky Lab to open software to review, says nothing to hide

October 24, 2017

Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said on Monday it will ask independent parties to review the security of its anti-virus software, which the US government has said could jeopardize national security, citing concerns over Kremlin influence and hijacking by Russian spies. Kaspersky, one of the world’s top cyber security vendors for consumers, said in a statement that …

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WSJ: Russian hackers stole NSA data on US cyber defense

October 9, 2017

Hackers working for the Russian government stole details of how the US penetrates foreign computer networks and defends against cyberattacks after a National Security Agency contractor removed the highly classified material and put it on his home computer. The news was reported this past Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, which cited “multiple people with …

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