On Wednesday, in a significant development, Russia’s chief of security at FSB Alexander Bortnikov said, Moscow will work together with the United States to locate cyber criminals. The FSB will follow agreements reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden. The development comes in the wake of the two heads of…
In a statement US officials said, they are applying more pressure on foreign adversaries and on domestic companies to fight cybercriminals; the Biden Administration is considering all options, including a military ones, to counter the growing threat. The U.S. administration is looking at “all of the options,” to defend the United States against ransomware cyber…
In a statement the U.S. Justice Department said, it had seized two Internet domains names which had been used in spear-phishing attacks that mimicked the email communications from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Armed with a court order, the Justice Department seized two command-and-control (C2) and malware distribution domains on May 28. The domain…
In a significant development that spells fresh bout of legal trouble for social media companies, Russian authorities are suing have launched a complaint against five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests. Russian authorities have filed cases against Facebook, Twitter, Google, Telegram and Tiktok for…
In a statement, Microsoft Corp’s President Brad Smith said, the SolarWinds hacking campaign that used the U.S. tech company as a springboard to compromise many U.S. government agencies is “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen”. The hacking campaign, identified in December 2020, was allegedly orchestrated by China and Russia, had…
According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, Russian-state backed hackers have been monitoring internal email traffic at the U.S. Commerce and Treasury Departments. The hacks that have so far been uncovered may only be the tip of the iceberg. The gravity of the cyber security can be inferred from the fact that it…
In a statement, SolarWinds, an IT company said, monitoring products that it had released earlier this year in March and in June may have been surreptitiously tampered with in a “highly-sophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state.” The statement by SolarWinds comes even as the U.S. intelligence community is investigating cyber…
As per a report from German news magazine Der Spiegel, Russia’s GRU military intelligence may have gained access to many e-mails from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 cyber attack on Germany’s parliament. A spokesman for the German government had no immediate comment. Federal criminal police along with Germany’s federal cyber agency…
ICO Rating has neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s charge that it had included paid-for ICO reviews between December 2017 and July 2018. In a significant development, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stated, it has levied “a fine and has settled charges against a Russia-based ratings firm for failure to disclose payments it…
The development revolves around a highly invasive technology called Mobile Device Management. On Thursday, antitrust authorities in Russia disclosed, they have begun investigating Apple Inc following a complaint from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab that Cupertino may be abusing its dominant market position. Russia’s FAS stated it was investigating why a new version of Kaspersky Lab’s…
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