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Yandex, a Russia-based technology and search engine giant, has confirmed that its servers were targeted with cyber history’s largest DDoS attack last week. In its blog post published on 9 September, Yandex revealed that the company discovered a powerful new network of botnets that have carried out DDoS attacks not just against Runet, Russia’s version […]
Russian Internet Giant Yandex hacked by Western intelligence agencies hackers with a rare type of malware called “Regin” to spy on Yandex users account. Yandex is a Russian search engine also specializing in Internet-related products and services including Commerce, transportation, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising. Yandex is widely known as Russian Google. The attacker was conducted between […]
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 […]
The Five Eyes alliance (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, UK and the United States) allegedly launched a takedown-level cyber attack and large-scale industrial espionage against Russia’s biggest search engine and web services company, Yandex. The incident occurred between October 2018 to November 2018, the data breach includes information about Yandex’s research and development efforts at that […]
Vulnerability is easy to exploit, hard to spot. A CSRF vulnerability existed in the core of the Yandex Browser that allowed attackers to trick the browser’s synchronization feature into sending the user’s browsing data to the wrong account. If exploited, the vulnerability would have allowed an attacker to steal the victim’s passwords, browser history, bookmarks, and […]
An employee of Russia’s Internet giant Yandex, Dmitry Korobov, stole the source code of its search engine and tried to sell it on the black market to fund his own startup, according to a report by the Russian newspaper Kommersant. A Russian court has found Korobov guilty and handed down a suspended sentence of two years […]