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Cyber attack takes down Ukrainian government websites

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... Read more

date2 years ago
Russian court fines Alphabet 7.2 billion roubles

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... Read more

date2 years ago
Ericsson is mulling over base station production in Russia

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 ... Read more

date2 years ago
Microsoft: Russia behind 58% of all state-sponsored hacks

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... Read more

date3 years ago
REvil ransomware gang vanishes following US pressure on Putin

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... Read more

date3 years ago
Russian national telco firm involved in content network hijacking

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... Read more

date4 years ago
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