All posts tagged "Russian"

Russian and Chinese hackers, two different approaches to cybercrime

Each hacker community looks for different things An analysis of professionals in digital forensics about the criminal activity of Russian and Chinese hackers reveals...

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Federal autorices accuse 7 Russian men of hacking

The defendants would have deployed various attacks against US and international organizations. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed a criminal prosecution...

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Russian espionage software persistent in thousands of domestic routers

Last May, the Justice Department asked US citizens to restart their routers, but there are still things to do The Russian army...

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Russian accused of massive U.S. hacking is extradited, pleads not guilty

A Russian man on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges he hacked three U.S. technology companies, potentially compromising personal details of more...

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US DoJ Identifies at least 6 Russian Government officials Involved in DNC hack

The United States Department of Justice has gathered evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials involved in the 2016 DNC hack....

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Russian Gov is threatening to ban Telegram because it refused to comply data protection laws

Russia threatens to ban the Telegram instant messaging app because the company refused to be compliant with the country’s new data protection...

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Russian! spies! ‘brains! behind!’ Yahoo! mega-hack! – four! charged!

Two Russian spies and two hackers were the miscreants who broke into Yahoo!‘s servers and swiped at least 500 million user account...

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Malware

These hackers set a ‘trap’ for security researchers probing their malware

Malicious Word document with ‘Russian doll’ technique targets NATO countries. Security researchers have identified a hacking campaign seemingly targeted at NATO members,...

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Intelligence report claims the Kremlin has cracked Telegram service

A raw intelligence document published last week claims Russian cyber experts have cracked Telegram messaging service to spy on opponents. A raw intelligence...

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Malware dubbed Nuke put up for sale on the dark web by an alleged Russian hacker

Researchers claim that the malware is currently priced at $4,000 and comes with ‘bot killer’ features. Security researchers have uncovered a new...

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Russian Methbot Operation Makes up to $5 Million per Day from Click-Fraud

A bot farm involving hundreds of servers and over 570,000 different IP addresses has caused losses for online video advertisers ranging from...

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Malware

Tordow Android Trojan Roots Devices, Steals Photos, Contacts, Chrome Database

Comodo security researchers have spotted version 2.0 of a deadly Android trojan named Tordow, which first came to light in February this...

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Malware

Affordable Android Phones Coming with Malware Injected in Stock Firmware

Security firm warns of Trojans shipping with stock firmware. Russian security company Dr. Web, who also makes a PC antivirus solution bearing the...

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Some hacked e-mails, documents from Putin advisor confirmed as genuine

Ukrainian hacking group’s haul shows Russian plans to destabilize Kiev…maybe. MRecently a cache of 2,337 e-mails from the office of a high-ranking...

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Hacker who stole 2.9 million credit card numbers is Russian lawmaker’s son

Roman Seleznev, aka “Track2,” was found guilty of 38 counts relating to fraud and theft. On Thursday, a federal jury in Seattle found...

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0-day critical flaws in mobile modems allow hackers to take over your PC

The Russian security tester Timur Yunusov has discovered critical flaw affecting routers and 3G and 4G mobile modems from Huawei, ZTE, Gemtek,...

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Russian Hackers Spying On Your Linux PC Using Sophisticated Malware “Fysbis”

Linux Backdoor Called Fysbis Used by Russian Hackers. A new malware family known as Fysbis (or Linux.BackDoor.Fysbis) is aiming Linux machines by setting...

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Dyre crackdown, the biggest effort to date by Russian authorities against cybercrime

Russian authorities raided offices of a Russian film distribution and production company as part of an operation against the Dyre gang. Russian...

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Uncooperative Russian ISP Prevents Cisco from Shutting Down Cybercriminal Gang

Russian ISP Eurobyte fails to answer Cisco’s emails, allows malvertising campaign to go on undisturbed. Cisco’s Talos research team has managed to identify...

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