Vladimir Putin
Russia’s Crackdown on Probiv Data Leaks May Have Fed the Beast Instead
Explore how Russia's efforts to control the probiv market highlight the challenges of data leaks, insider threats, and the conflict between control and security ...
Russian Throttling of Cloudflare ‘Renders Many Websites Barely Usable’
Russian ISPs, under the direction of the government, are choking the access of Russian citizens to websites protected by Cloudflare, limiting them to 16 KB of data, which the U.S.-based company said ...
Stoli Vodka: Bankrupt After Ransomware Attack
Absolutely un-fabulous: Smells like Russia is responsible, but reality is a bit more complicated ...
Prisoner Swap: Huge Russian Hackers Freed — Seleznev and Klyushin
Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals ...
Russian Hackers Target Ukraine Via A Disinformation Campaign
Disinformation campaigns play an important role in cyber warfare, and this is exactly what Russian hackers target Ukraine. After waging war on Ukraine on land, Russia is attacking the East European country ...
Russia Hit by New ‘CryWiper’ — Fake Ransomware
A new wiper malware is destroying data on Russian government PCs. Dubbed CryWiper, it pretends to be ransomware ...
Putin’s ‘Victory Parade’ TV Show Hacked: ‘Blood on Your Hands’
Ukrainian hackers and their friends continue to pummel Russian computers. “Hundreds of millions of documents” are being leaked. And today, Putin’s famous Victory Parade has been marred by hackers ...
Lawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook
Aleksei Burkov, a cybercriminal who long operated two of Russia's most exclusive underground hacking forums, was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities. The Russian government fought Burkov's extradition to the U.S. for ...
At Request of U.S., Russia Rounds Up 14 REvil Ransomware Affiliates
The Russian government said today it arrested 14 people accused of working for "REvil," a particularly aggressive ransomware group that has extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from victim organizations. The Russian ...
Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Gets 9 Years
A well-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow was sentenced on Friday to nine years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to running a site ...
