Enlarge / The head of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), Andrei Lipov, during a meeting with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, at the Moscow Kremlin. Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS (Photo by Alexei NikolskyTASS via Getty Images) Kentik Director of Internet Analysis Doug Madory observed […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) By now, most people know that hackers tied to the Russian government compromised the SolarWinds software build system and used it to push a malicious update to some 18,000 of the company’s customers. On Monday, researchers published evidence that hackers from China also targeted SolarWinds customers in what security analysts have […]
Enlarge (credit: Oleksii Leonov) Ukraine has accused the Russian government of hacking into one of its government Web portals and planting malicious documents that would install malware on end users’ computers. “The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of information resources of public authorities, as this system is used for the circulation of […]
Enlarge / The logo of the French national cybersecurity agency Agence Nationale de la securite des systemes d’information(ANSSI) taken at ANSSI headquarters in Paris. (credit: Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images) The Russian military hackers known as Sandworm, responsible for everything from blackouts in Ukraine to NotPetya, the most destructive malware in history, don’t […]
Enlarge / Picture of vials of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, seen at the Cotahuma Hospital in La Paz, Bolivia. (credit: Jorge Bernal/Getty Images) Yesterday, the people behind Russia’s leading vaccine, termed Sputnik V, issued a preliminary analysis of its function. The news was quite good: while the trial is […]
U.S. intelligence agencies and the FBI said a major hack of the federal government and some corporations was likely undertaken by Russia — contradicting President Donald Trump’s efforts to suggest China might be responsible — and “will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation is still focused on identifying […]
Enlarge / Side view of colorful St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow on Red Square in front of the Kremlin, Russia. (credit: Getty Images) Hackers working for the Russian government were “likely” behind the software supply chain attack that planted a backdoor in the networks of 180,000 private companies and governmental bodies, officials from the US […]
President Donald Trump cautioned the seriousness of a enormous cyber-attack about the U.S. administration and suggested China could have been liable — as the other U.S. officials are convinced Russia had been that the perpetrator. In doing this Saturday about Twitterthe president scooped evaluations from senior officers within his {} who have blamed Moscow to […]
Expand / / The assault struck on multiple US agencies–along with a complete evaluation of the damage could still be weeks away. Bloomberg Last week, many leading United States government agencies–such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, and State–discovered their systems were broken up by Russian hackers at an months-long espionage performance . […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that Russia had been”pretty certainly” supporting the gravest cyberattack against america on record. Pompeo is the very first government official to openly connect the Kremlin into the intrusion in a period when President Trump has kept quiet about the failure to safeguard authorities and private-sector computer programs. It […]