A U.S. jury indicted a Russian man on Wednesday as the operator of a digital currency exchange he allegedly used to launder more than $4 billion for people involved in crimes ranging from computer hacking to drug trafficking. Alexander Vinnik was arrested in a small beachside village in northern Greece on Tuesday, according to local …
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Russia’s telecom regulator Roskomnadzor blocked internet giant Google for several hours on Thursday in a bid to enforce a tax ruling made in 2016. Google.ru appeared on Russia’s register of banned sites for approximately three hours on Thursday afternoon, with a number of internet providers restricting users’ access. The site was blocked as part of …
Russian security software maker Kaspersky Lab has filed antitrust complaints against Microsoft with the European Commission and the German federal cartel office, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Kaspersky Lab said Microsoft was abusing its dominance in the PC operating system market, creating obstacles for independent software security vendors by distributing its own Defender …
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Two weeks after the Ukrainian authorities banned leading Russian Internet sites as part of sanctions affecting 468 Russian legal entities, Yandex announced that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) conducted searches at the company’s offices in Kiev and Odessa. Yandex.Ukraine management and employees are accused of having gathered personal data of Ukrainian users and transmitted them …
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Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) announced today the end of a two-year legal procedure with the involved parties reaching a voluntary settlement in a Moscow arbitration court. “The settlement will help eliminate the violations of the antimonopoly legislation previously detected and will ensure competition on markets of mobile applications, especially mobile search,” stated the FAS. In a case launched in February 2015 by …
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Yesterday, as reported by The New York Times, the Justice Department on Wednesday charged two Russian intelligence officers with directing a sweeping criminal conspiracy that broke into 500 million Yahoo accounts in 2014. The Russian government then used the information it obtained from the intelligence officers and two others named in the indictment — a Russian hacker …
LinkedIn Corp. and the Russian authorities have failed to reach an agreement to restore access to the international social network from this country, Reuters has reported, refering to statements made yesterday by the company and the telecom regulator Roskomnadzor. “While we believe we comply with all applicable laws, and despite conversations with Roskomnadzor, including meeting with them in Moscow …
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A Russian technology executive who was named in a dossier containing unverified allegations about connections between President Trump and the Russian government has sued BuzzFeed News, which published the information. The defamation suit was filed in court on Friday in Broward County, Fla., according to lawyers for the executive, Aleksej Gubarev, the chief of XBT, …
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Russian social network Vkontakte is suing two data-mining companies who used its website to gather information on users without permission. The two companies, Double Data and the National Bureau of Credit Histories, will appear in the case at Moscow’s Arbitration Court. Double Data collects information on users’ place of work, study, and friends from their …
DailyMotion, a New York-headquartered video sharing platform and a property of the French group Vivendi, is likely to be banned soon in Russia, following a ruling by a Moscow court. The video hosting site was sued by TV channel Pyatnitsa, a property of Gazprom Media, for having provided access to proprietary contents without the rights owner’s consent. Pyatnitsa’s claim referred to …
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A top cyber-security specialist in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has been arrested on charges of treason, the Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday. Sergei Mikhailov, deputy chief at the FSB’s Information Security Center (CDC), stands accused of receiving money from “foreign organizations,” Kommersant reported, citing unnamed FSB sources. Mikhailov has been detained in pre-trial detention since December 2016, …
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Smartphone users in Russia can no longer download the LinkedIn app on iPhone or Android devices, following a similar move in China to block The New York Times app on iPhones. The demand by Russian authorities to remove LinkedIn in Apple and Google app stores comes weeks after a court blocked the professional networking service for flouting local laws that require internet firms …
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