Coverage of cybersecurity incidents, policy, privacy, public services, advisories, and regional developments connected to Russia.
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Russia covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Russia, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving Russia's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
Russian software developers are reporting that their GitHub accounts are being suspended without warning if they work for or previously worked for companies under US sanctions. [...]
While countries worldwide have been the frequent target of ransomware attacks, Russia and CIS countries have been avoided by threat actors. The tables have turned with the NB65 hacking group modifying the leaked Conti ransomware to use in attacks on Russian entities. [...]
OldGremlin, a little-known threat actor that uses its particularly advanced skills to run carefully prepared, sporadic campaigns, has made a comeback last month after a gap of more than one year. [...]
OldGremlin, a little-known threat actor that uses its particularly advanced skills to run carefully prepared, sporadic campaigns, has made a comeback last month after a gap of more than one year. [...]
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday disclosed that it thwarted a cyberattack by Sandworm, a hacking group affiliated with Russia's military intelligence, to sabotage the operations of an unnamed energy provider in the country
Chinese giant still hiring in Moscow – for some very interesting gigs Chinese telecom giant Huawei has issued a mandatory month-long furlough to some of its Russia-based staff and suspended new orders, according to Russian media.…
The attack involved use of a new version of Industroyer tool for manipulating industrial control systems.
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Sandworm tried on Friday to take down a large Ukrainian energy provider by disconnecting its electrical substations with a new variant of the Industroyer malware for industrial control systems (ICS) and a new version of the CaddyWiper data destruction malware. [...]
Money launderers will be firmly in the sights of EU police
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal civilian agencies and urged all US organizations on Monday to patch an actively exploited bug impacting WatchGuard Firebox and XTM firewall appliances. [...]
Developers are increasingly voicing their opinions through their open source projects in active use by thousands of software applications and organizations. Most recently, the developer of the 'event-source-polyfill' npm package peacefully protested Russia's "unreasonable invasion" of Ukraine, to Russian consumers. [...]
Developers are increasingly voicing their opinions through their open source projects in active use by thousands of software applications and organizations. Most recently, the developer of the 'event-source-polyfill' npm package peacefully protested Russia's "unreasonable invasion" of Ukraine, to Russian consumers. [...]