Cyber attack takes down Ukrainian government websites
The attack warned Ukrainians to "be afraid and expect the worst"
Ukraine was the victim of a “massive” cyber-attack this week, with the websites of several government departments including the ministry of foreign affairs and the education ministry knocked out.
Ukrainian officials told Reu...
Russian court fines Alphabet 7.2 billion roubles
The fines levied against Google and Meta Platforms mark a new level of government crackdowns in Russia
A Moscow court on Friday said it was fining Alphabet's Google 7.2 billion roubles (86 million euros), according to reporting by Reuters. The fines are for what the court said was a repeated fai...
Ericsson is mulling over base station production in Russia
Swedish company Ericsson is conducting an audit of a site in Russia’s region of Kaliningrad. According to Kommersant Daily, the company wants to know if it can build telecom base stations there. The Russian publication cited unnamed telecom industry sources.
Russia has said it plans to extend ...
Microsoft: Russia behind 58% of all state-sponsored hacks
The attacks mostly targeted government agencies and think tanks in the United States, Ukraine and U.K.
Russia was behind 58 percent of all state-backed cyber attacks carried out over the past year on Western targets, according to new research conducted by Microsoft. The report also found that Ch...
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...