REvil ransomware gang vanishes following US pressure on Putin
The disappearance follows a run of spectacular high profile take-downs of businesses worldwide.
Ransomware gang REvil (allegedly named for "Ransomware Evil") has disappeared following pressure from the U.S. government on Russia to act on ransomware groups operating in the country. The REvil rans...
Canonical wins biggest Russian telco for OpenStack 5G infrastructure
The Russian telecom giant MTS hopes to accelerate its rollout of 5G and other new services.
Russian telco MTS has decided to use Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack cloud computing platform to power the operator’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. They aim to use OpenStack to support future se...
Russian national telco firm involved in content network hijacking
Internet traffic to and from large global content delivery networks has recently been unintentionally diverted through the Russian telecom operator Rostelcom. This was done with a classic BGP hijacking.
The incident occurred last week, according to ZDNet. Concretely, internet traffic to and from...
“U.S. and Russia are trying to hack into each other’s electricity networks.
The US and Russia are accusing each other of hacking into the other's electricity networks or trying to do so. According to the other, both countries are trying to inject malware, either directly or via state-sponsored hackers, into networks that can partially or completely shut down the other's ele...
Kaspersky: Technology companies need to release source code to gain confidence
Governments that are concerned about systems from foreign technology companies should ask them to open up their source codes for inspection, finds Eugene Kaspersky. This is better than having governments simmer their paranoia about it, according to the CEO of Kaspersky Lab.
Worldwide, Kaspersky says...
Russia accuses of spoofing GPS and other navigation satellite systems
Russia is accused of blocking, hijacking and disrupting signals from global navigation satellite systems. The Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) claims this in a recently published report.
C4ADS is a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to providing data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporti...
Lethal killer malware code Triton expands worldwide
The fraudulent killer malware code called Triton can disable security systems that prevent catastrophic industrial accidents. The code, designed to intentionally endanger human lives, was discovered in 2017 at a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia. The hackers behind Triton would now focus on North ...
Splunk leaves the Russian market for unclear reasons
Splunk, a company involved in the analysis of big data, is leaving the Russian market. The company, which also sells cybersecurity tools, gives no reason for that decision. It just lets us know that it continuously evaluates in which markets it invests and where it focuses its attention.
The main pr...
Unsecured MongoDB databases expose Kremlin’s back door to Russian companies
Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers found an account that the Kremlin used to grant itself access to the servers of local and foreign companies operating in Russia. The account was found in thousands of MongoDB databases that appeared to be accessible online without a password.
Gevers spoke to t...
“Ryuk-ransomware is Russian-made.
Researchers from Crowdstrike, FireEye and McAfee Labs argue that the ransomware called Ryuk is made in Russia. Earlier it was thought that the ransomware had been developed and used by North Koreans. Silicon Angle, among others, writes about the findings.
Ryuk was discovered last summer and managed ...
Czech Republic accuses Russia of several attacks on government networks
The Czech Republic accuses Russia of invading their government networks, reports ZDNet. The country's intelligence service, BIS, states in an annual report that two espionage groups linked to Russia entered the networks.
These are the groups Turla and APT28, also known as Fancy Bear. The groups are ...
First Transparency Center Kaspersky Lab inaugurated
Kaspersky Labs has opened its first Transparency Center. Data from European users is now entering data centres in Switzerland, where the servers process the data. In this way, the Russian company fights back against the critics who fear a conspiracy between the company and the Russian government.
Ka...