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A recently revealed story has attracted the interest of the cybersecurity community. Aleksey Burkov, 29, is a man from Russia who has spent the last four years of his life in Hadarim prison, in Israel without anyone noticing his presence too much, until now. Little was known about Burkov outside the prison until last weekend […]
Officials at Sberbank Rossi, the largest Russian bank, have revealed some details about their investigation of a data breach that would have affected at least 200 users of the bank. According to reports from information security experts, the bank detected the incident last October 2. However, additional local media reports mention that the 200 affected […]
Users of Yuri Gagarin International Airport, in the Russian city of Saratov, were surprised by an uncommon screening. Data protection experts reported that a hacker group would have infiltrated the airport systems to display a pornographic film on the screens of one of the airport men’s bathrooms. The explicit material was projected on a set […]
Currently, users mostly from in Eastern Europe & Russia are being targeted by this botnet. Recently, researchers from the Czech Technical University, UNCOYO University based in Argentina and Avast Security have found an Android botnet named Geost by collaborating in on the investigations and have presented it at the Virus Bulletin 2019 conference held in […]
A few months back, we saw the personal data of over 188 million people leak due to an insecure MongoDB Database. Then in September 2019, we saw the data of almost every Ecuadorian leaked in a massive data breach. A similar incident has occurred now but with Russia. According to a report by Comparitech, more […]
On 31st July 2019, internet users within Kazakhstan experienced a show of dismay unseen before. Suddenly, hundreds of website could not be accessed. The first report was seen to be made by Manshuq Media on Facebook where they explained the issue in a post as seen below: The post translated from Kazakh. This came forward […]
Public WiFi networks continue to create serious problems for their users. Network security specialists report that Alexander Safonov, a Russian programmer who is being investigated as part of the hacker group known as Lurk, has written an open letter revealing the presence of security vulnerabilities in the networks of four international airports in Russia: Platov, […]
Hacking and cyber espionage activities between national states keep increasing. According to reports from digital forensics specialists, the Russian government had hacked FBI communications systems to prevent US agents from detecting Russian spies working in American territory and agencies. The report states that, in addition to the ability to disrupt their communication systems, the FBI […]
Edward Snowden departed for Russian territory in 2013, after he decided to disclose classified information about US National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance activities, according to information security experts, shortly after he landed in Moscow he was arrested by the authorities. A Russian intelligence officer later informed him that his passport was cancelled by the US […]
Canadian security firm Lookout has discovered yet another Russian-made surveillance campaign targeting Android users. The firm detected a dangerous Android surveillance tool called Monokle, which was supposedly developed by the Russian defense contractor Special Technology Centre Ltd. (STC), based in St. Petersberg. It is believed that STC played a crucial role in affecting the 2016 […]
The tension generated by the cyber warfare between the United States, and its allies, and Iran keeps growing. Although some information security specialists consider Iranian hackers to be light years away from the U.S. government in terms of capabilities and resources, this does not apply in the same way for the American private companies’ technology […]
It appears that the hackers got hacked this time! According to BBC Russia, hackers have managed to steal data from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). The attackers managed to steal about 7.5 terabytes of data from a major FSB contractor, thus exposing the secret projects the agency was working on to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape […]
IT system audit specialists report that intelligence agencies in Five Eyes alliance member countries (US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada) have been accused of hacking Yandex systems, a search engine most commonly known as the “Russian Google”. The Reuters news agency released a report in which four anonymous sources claim that Western spies operated […]
Cybersecurity audit specialists from multiple firms say Russia is altering GPS signals to work to spy on government agencies in strategic areas, such as Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport. The Kremlin has denied such claims. According to Israeli intelligence reports, the signal from GPS systems at that airport has shown failures resulting in affectations for pilots […]
Apparently, Russia has carried out several activities attributed to continuous disinformation, with the purpose of suppressing voter turnout in voting sessions, in addition to influencing their preferences. A document, released by the European Union (EU), says that Russia is using social media in an attempt to influence its elections. They have stated that the country is […]
Just earlier this week, we reported regarding the Chinese Military’s plan to ditch the Windows operating system and adopt a new operating system. At the moment, there are no reports of a Linux-based or Unix-like OS being adopted to ditch the proprietary software. As per various reports, it seems that Russia is also acting swiftly […]
The personal information and passport details of more than 2 million Russian citizens, including government employees and members of the country’s political elite, have been exposed through multiple government websites, reported several website security audit firms. Informational Culture activists, a Russian non-profit organization, were responsible for revealing this serious cybersecurity incident. Through the official Information […]
Other two companies allegedly involved in the data breach are Symantec and McAfee. Recently Hackread.com informed you about a Russian group of hackers dubbed Fxsmsp that is specifically targeting trusted anti-virus companies and has attacked the servers of three mainstream firms. Now, Gizmodo has reported that Trend Micro is included in the list of the […]
Fxsmsp Threat Group, “a credible hacking collective” is offering to sell source code of major anti-virus software for a whopping $300,000. The servers of three high-profile anti-virus firms have allegedly been compromised by a group of elite Russian hackers. The hacker group, known as Fxsmsp, claims to have stolen the companies’ software source code after […]
After proposing new legislation that could lead to Russia having its own internet, the Russian authorities have now issued a notice to 10 VPN providers to restrict access to websites that are banned by the country’s laws. The notice issued by Roskomnadzor, the communications watchdog of Russia, mentions that if VPN providers fail to block the […]
U.S. government intelligence reports claim that Russia has sent a team of armed cybersecurity experts to Venezuela to support President Nicolas Maduro regime. According to the authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking‘, two Russian military aircraft landed in Caracas on the morning of last Saturday; aboard the planes were traveling about one hundred soldiers […]