The United States and Britain have accused Russia of releasing a cyberattack that impacted computers around the world and could be used to launch offensive attacks. According to Reuters, the attack was launched on computer routers, firewalls and other networking equipment used by government agencies,...
Moscow-based data security firm Group-IB reported Monday (Dec. 11) that a group of Russian hackers stole close to $10 million from several largely U.S. and Russian banks over the past year or more, and all by going after interbank transfer systems. According to Monday (Dec....
U.S. officials believe that the Russian government used a popular antivirus software to scan computers around the world for classified U.S. information. According to news from The Wall Street Journal, a software that routinely scans files of computers to find viruses and other malware, is...
With a now-total ban on WhatsApp, China has finally ousted Facebook for good, and Russia is threatening to do the same if the social media platform does not abide by its government’s rules (ironic, as Russia reached at least 10 million American Facebook users with...
December 12, 2017
Moscow-based data security firm Group-IB reported Monday (Dec. 11) that a group of Russian hackers stole close to $10 million from several largely U.S. and Russian banks over the past year or more, and all by going after interbank transfer systems. According to Monday (Dec. 11) Reuters reports, the attacks began about 18 months ago, […]
May 30, 2017
Russian hackers were able to get into the computer of a Pentagon official using a link attached to a Twitter post. According to a report in The New York Times, the post,...
March 16, 2017
The Department of Justice bringing charges against two spies in Russia and two hackers who allegedly took part in the massive data breach that rocked Yahoo recently has now shed...
March 07, 2017
According to sources familiar with FBI and private security efforts, Russian hackers are hard at work scouring the emails of liberal groups in a search for details embarrassing enough to...
