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Russian organizations have been targeted by a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt using a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions against a dozen individuals serving executive and senior leadership roles at Kaspersky Lab, a day after the Russian company was banned by the Commerce Department
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned twelve Kaspersky Lab executives for operating in the technology sector of Russia. [...]
Sanctions Comes After Biden Administration Banned the Russian Cybersecurity FirmSenior executives of Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky face new restrictions against doing business in Western countries following an announcement Friday morning by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that it sanctioned 12 of them. Those sanctioned do not include company CEO Eugene Kaspersky.
If Putin likes jammin', we hope NATO likes jammin' too Sweden says its satellites have been impacted by "harmful interference" from Russia ever since the Nordic nation joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) last March.…
New Updates for Customers Will Become Unavailable on September 29The U.S. federal government is taking broad enforcement actions against the Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky Labs by banning the company from selling its antivirus software products in the United States after an investigation raised national security concerns.
Blockade begins July 20 over national security fears Breaking news The Biden administration has banned the sale of Kaspersky software in the United States, arguing the Russian biz is a national security risk.…
The notorious cyber espionage group has been harrying French interests for years, and isn't flagging now as the Paris Olympics approach.
On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data broker Radaris, showing how the original owners are two men in Massachusetts who operated multiple Russian language dating services and affiliate programs, in addition to a dizzying array of people-search websites. The subjects of that piece are threatening to sue KrebsOnSecurity for defamation unless the story is retracted. Meanwhile, their attorney has admitted that the person Radaris named as the CEO from its inception is a fabricated identity.
The stream was briefly knocked offline, preventing millions of fans from accessing the game. Poland's head of digital services says "all leads lead to the Russian Federation."
State-sponsored actors with ties to Russia have been linked to targeted cyber attacks aimed at French diplomatic entities, the country's information security agency ANSSI said in an advisory
The French cybersecurity agency has warned that Russian-aligned threat actor has been targeting public organizations for years
Publishing right before a major election is apparently just a coincidence A fresh report into the Nobelium offensive cyber crew published by France's computer emergency response team (CERT-FR) highlights the group's latest tricks as the country prepares for a major election and to host this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games.…
OpenAI, Meta and 8 Other Chatbots Use Disinformation Network as SourcePopular artificial intelligence chatbots are rife with Russian disinformation, warns NewsGuard, the rating system for news and information websites. The chatbots failed to recognize that sites such as "The Boston Times" or "The Houston Post" are Russian propaganda fronts.
Midnight Blizzard Compromised Government Staff Emails for the Attack, French ANSSI SaidA Russian foreign intelligence hacking group attempted to target the French Foreign Ministry using compromised emails of government staffers, the French cyber agency said. It said the group poses a "national security concern" to French and European diplomatic interests.
Russian-Speaking Gang Follows Typical Playbook; Critical Services Still DisruptedThe ransomware attack that disrupted U.K. pathology services provider Synnovis, continuing to cause thousands of canceled and delayed operations and appointments across London, reportedly featured a $50 million ransom demand from attackers, backed by the typical threat to leak stolen data.