Enlarge (credit: Wired | Getty Images) For years, Russia’s cybercrime groups have acted with relative impunity. The Kremlin and local law enforcement have largely turned a blind eye to disruptive ransomware attacks as long as they didn’t target Russian companies. Despite direct pressure on Vladimir Putin to tackle ransomware groups, they’re still intimately tied to […]
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US says Russian state hackers lurked in defense contractor networks for months
Enlarge / What’s happened to Russia’s flag? (credit: Sean Gladwell / Getty Images) Hackers backed by the Russian government have breached the networks of multiple US defense contractors in a sustained campaign that has revealed sensitive information about US weapons-development communications infrastructure, the federal government said on Wednesday. The campaign began no later than January […]
U. S. and global allies blame China for Microsoft Exchange hack attack
The group of nations attributing the attack to China will also include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and NATO. Read More