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Cheap access to top international video platforms available on Russian darknet

April 29, 2022

Ads to access Spotify Premium, Netflix Premium, Pornhub and VPN services are flourishing in Russia — be it on the darkness or on legitimate classifieds platforms such as Avito.  Russian business daily Kommersant found no fewer than 60 ads to access Spotify, most often offering offer to join a foreign family account.  Meanwhile, 57 Spotify account …

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Yandex scales back “many planned investments,” withdraws 2022 financial guidance

April 29, 2022

In the instable environment created by Russia’s war on Ukraine, Yandex’s annual report to the US Security Exchange Commission (SEC) provides details on a range of pressing business issues and potential company risks. The report was issued Thursday by Yandex’s Netherlands-headquartered mother company, which has been listed on the Nasdaq since 2011. After the resignation …

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Reuters: Binance built ties to a Russian FSB-linked agency

April 22, 2022

Just one day after Binance announced it was deactivating the accounts of its major clients in Russia in order to comply with EU sanctions, Reuters reveals how, starting from April 2021, the world’s leading crypto exchange secretly shared client data with the Russian authorities. At the time, Russia’s financial intelligence unit Rosfinmonitoring (Rosfin) was “seeking to trace …

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China’s payment card giant UnionPay backs away from Russia

April 29, 2022

China’s UnionPay system refused to cooperate with Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank and suspended talks with other banks for fear of secondary sanctions, the RBC news website reported Wednesday.  Russian banks planned to issue cards using UnionPay after Visa and Mastercard suspended operations last month in compliance with sanctions imposed over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The Russian …

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SAP “supports Ukraine” but has “no magical button” to make Russian software licenses disappear

April 21, 2022

Yesterday SAP announced “further steps” to “support Ukraine” and “plan Russia exit.”  As announced in late March, the global enterprise software giant is in the process of shutting down its cloud services in Russia. As part of this process, “we have given non-sanctioned companies in Russia the choice to have their data deleted, sent to them, or migrated …

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Google denies removing blurring for Russia’s military sites

April 20, 2022

Google Maps denied reports Monday that it had made Russia’s strategic facilities visible to users, allegedly revealing details of the country’s military infrastructure.  Satellite images of military facilities are sometimes blurred by Google Maps, or displayed in lower quality, to protect their classified status.   “We haven’t made any blurring changes to our satellite imagery in Russia,” Google …

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Russian search engines remove “extremist” Instagram, Facebook, independent media results

April 19, 2022

Two of Russia’s largest search engines have removed results for Facebook, Instagram and several independent news websites after authorities blocked or declared them “extremist.” Meduza, Mediazona, Deutsche Welle, Current Time, Kholod, The Insider and other news outlets that have been providing independent coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were also removed from search results. Yandex …

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Russia arrests alleged co-founder of world’s largest darknet marketplace

April 15, 2022

Russia has arrested the alleged co-founder of dark web platform Hydra a week after U.S. and German authorities said they shut down what they called the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace.   German police said this month it took control of Hydra’s Germany-based servers and seized $25 million in bitcoin assets. The U.S. Justice named Dmitry Pavlov, 30, as the …

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Russian state media is still posting to TikTok a month after the app blocked new content

April 13, 2022

TikTok issued an update Tuesday on its efforts to stem the flow of misinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the company doesn’t appear to be effectively implementing its existing policies around the war. The social network cut off new content originating in Russia in early March in response to a harsh new law in the country criminalizing “fake …

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Ukraine disrupts attempt by Russian hackers to take down energy provider

April 21, 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disrupted an attempt by Sandworm, a hacking group known to work for Russia’s military intelligence, to take down a Ukrainian energy provider.  The Russia-backed hacking group attempted to disconnect the unnamed provider’s electrical substations using a new version of the infamous Industroyer malware, CERT-UA said in a security …

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Huawei suspends new orders, furloughs Russia staff amid sanctions threat

April 13, 2022

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has furloughed its Russian staff for at least one month after suspending new orders as Beijing faces potential secondary sanctions for doing business with Moscow, Forbes Russia has reported. The United States has warned China not to help Russia evade sanctions, threatening to expand its toolbox of secondary penalties that force …

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How US secretly removed malware worldwide, pre-empting Russian cyberattacks

April 10, 2022

The United States said on Wednesday that it had secretly removed malware from computer networks around the world in recent weeks, a step to pre-empt Russian cyberattacks and send a message to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The move, made public by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, comes as U.S. officials warn that Russia …

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