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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.
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Starting June 9, 2025, Russian internet service providers (ISPs) have begun throttling access to websites and services protected by Cloudflare, an American internet giant. [...]
Also, O Canada, Oh Brother and More Probable Chinese HackingThis week, ransomware kills, Salt Typhoon hit Canada, Russian backdoors, SAP and Citrix patches, China hackers in the oil and energy sector. Brother printers have an unfixable flaw. Ransomware hit a U.S. dairy cooperative. Hackers in Albania and Oxford. European lawmakers heard cybersecurity advice.
Russian judge lets off accused with time served – but others who refused to plead guilty face years in penal colony Four convicted members of the once-supreme ransomware operation REvil are leaving captivity after completing most of their five-year sentences.…
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new cyber attack campaign by the Russia-linked APT28 (aka UAC-0001) threat actors using Signal chat messages to deliver two new malware families dubbed BEARDSHELL and COVENANT
The Russian state-sponsored threat group APT28 is using Signal chats to target government targets in Ukraine with two previously undocumented malware families named BeardShell and SlimAgent. [...]
Four REvil ransomware members arrested in January 2022 were released by Russia on time served after they pleaded guilty to carding and malware distribution charges. [...]