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How Russia’s war on Ukraine and Kyiv’s call for help sparked off the first ever global cyber guerrilla

June 3, 2022

Weeks before tanks and soldiers marched on the cities of Ukraine, Russia carried out a series of successful cyberattacks against Ukraine, hitting critical infrastructure and financial institutions around the country with at least six unique strains of destructive wiper malware. Recent reporting confirms Russia’s GRU also carried out a massive cyberattack against Viasat, knocking its customers’ KA-SAT satellite …

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Nothing could slow inDriver’s rise from Siberian startup to global Uber competitor. Then Russia invaded Ukraine

May 24, 2022

In 2021 inDriver, a ride-hailing app founded in Yakutsk, Siberia, back in 2012, announced it had achieved unicorn status. Its valuation reached $1.23 billion, following a funding round of $150 million earlier that year. This startup seemed set to continue its rollout into new locations around the world, including plans to expand into Australia. In …

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Targeted by western sanctions, Sber has to part with key digital assets

May 20, 2022

Just weeks after Yandex sold its news aggregation and online entertainment services, another key player of Russia’s online ecosystem, Sber, has deprived itself from important digital assets.  A company called Novye Vozmozhnosti (New Possibilities) is the new owner of the music service SberZvuk (previously Zvooq.ru, acquired by Sber in Aprill 2021); the video streaming service Okko (aquired …

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How Ukrainian “Inglorious Basterds” are combating Russia on the cyber front

May 20, 2022

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many cybersecurity experts and activists have joined the Ukrainian cyber front. They carry out DDoS attacks on Russian resources, defacing Russian sites, taking their popular services offline, and even more drastic operations.  One of the coordinators of such IT armies is Kharkiv cybersecurity specialist Mykyta Knysh. Having worked …

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How a Ukrainian tech entrepreneur created a startup from a Russian prison

June 3, 2022

Serge Faguet, a Ukraine-born tech entrepreneur who studied at Stanford and co-founded Russian booking service Ostrovok.ru in the early 2010s, made a public confession last week in a Medium post.  In the summer of last year, a Russian customs agent at the Moscow airport found five tabs of acid — in addition to a US-physician-prescribed …

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Ukraine war spurs US to ramp up Kaspersky security probe

May 10, 2022

The Biden administration ramped up a national security probe into Russia’s AO Kaspersky Lab antivirus software earlier this year amid heightened fears of Russian cyberattacks after Moscow invaded Ukraine, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The case was referred to the Commerce Department by the Department of Justice last year, a fourth person …

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Huawei, Lenovo, Union Pay, Xiaomi: Russia’s hopes for Chinese relief from western sanctions could be dashed to dust

May 10, 2022

Chinese IT companies are “quietly pulling back from doing business in Russia under pressure from US sanctions and suppliers,” despite calls by Beijing for companies to resist overseas pressure, WSJ reports.   Several major companies are decreasing shipments to Russia, including PC giant Lenovo and smartphone and gadget maker Xiaomi. These two companies have actually stopped deliveries to Russia, even though …

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Toxic assets: How Yandex became part of Russia’s censorship machine

June 5, 2022

In late April, Russian Internet giant Yandex announced it was selling its news service, Yandex.News, and its personal recommendations service, Yandex.Zen, to VK Company, which is controlled by the Kremlin. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, these products (just like Yandex overall) have faced a barrage of criticism for misleading millions of users by withholding credible information …

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Russian owner of one of the world’s top digital banks says Kremlin forced sale of his stake

May 3, 2022

UK-sanctioned Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov said the Kremlin forced him to sell his stake in a major bank he had founded after he criticized the Ukraine war. Tinkoff Bank, one of Russia’s most impressive success stories in the tech field, has over 20 million customers — making it one of the world’s biggest digital banks. It is …

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Hacker attacks on Russia gain attention but cause little damage

April 29, 2022

Two days after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a group of hackers managed to get access to several Russian state-owned television channels and broadcast anti-war videos.  But the attack ended after a few minutes and regular programming resumed.  This type of fleeting hacking operation has been repeated many times in Russia in recent weeks in …

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