Contents tagged with Hackers
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Largest Russian banks attacked by unknown hackers
Hackers of yet-unknown origin have carried out a series of attacks on major Russian banks, RIA Novosti reported, citing a source close to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Later the anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab confirmed the news, saying that the attack that began on November 8th and continues for the second day in a row became the first large-scale, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in 2016 aimed at Russian banks.According to Kaspersky Lab, the hackers attacked the …
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Sputnik's Twitter account was hacked
After having gained access to the account at about 9 a.m. Moscow time, hackers changed the design of Sputnik's Twitter account, and changed the user name to Matt Curtis. However, hackers haven’t done anything else yet — there have not been any new tweets by Sputnik.
Sputnik’s press service promptly sent a request to Twitter’s technical support, but have not received a reply yet. They have not yet been able to restore the account to its usual status. Sputnik’s press service confirmed the attack …
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Hackers publish emails from account of Putin's aide
Hackers from the group Cyberjunta published correspondence from a hacked e-mail which, according to them, was used by the aide to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladislav Surkov.
According to these emails, Surkov allegedly took part in appointing the heads of the ministries of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic. Moreover, hackers note that many letters were focused on the situation in Kharkiv and the opportunity to stabilize the area. Another curious finding was a plan on …
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PayPal blocked accounts of a Russian company accused of cyber-attacks against the US
PayPal, a worldwide online payments system, has blocked the personal and corporate accounts of King Servers company, from whose servers the cyber-attack on the U.S. election systems was performed. The company’s owner, Vladimir Fomenko informed RIA Novosti of this development.
American experts have previously declared that King Servers, whose owner lives in the city of Biysk, Altai region, owns six of the eight IP-addresses uncovered by the FBI in connection with the hacking investigation. It …
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The US could apply 'deterrence practices' against Russian hackers
The Assistant Attorney General for National Security, John Carlin, stated that the US can apply a practice of deterrence against Russian hackers if they continue their practice of invading US resources, Voice of America reported. It was noted that Iran, North Korea, China and Russia are the four countries that pose the biggest threat to US cyberspace.
According to Carlin, the US has successfully deterred three of them. The Department of Justice brought charges against separate hackers from …
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Peskov: Russian authorities are not involved in the hacking of Democratic National Committee computers
When commenting on the report by The Washington Post that hackers associated with the Russian government broke into the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) computer system, the President's Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov stated that Russian authorities are not involved in this incident.
“I completely exclude the possibility that the Russian Government is mixed up in this,” Reuters quoted Peskov as saying.
The Washington Post, citing sources in committees and computer security experts in …
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Der Taggespiegel: Russian hackers threaten German power grids
German energy sector companies are being threatened by hacker attacks, which may be supported by Russian secret services, as reported on Saturday, March 12th, by Tagesspiegel. According to the letter, which the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution sent to various German economic associations, there is evidence that a large-scale attack by the hacker group, Sofacy, is being prepared. In the worst case this may lead to damage of power plants and networks.
Malicious software, …