Cyberwar

Ukraine takes resistance to cyberspace, assembles “IT army” to hack Russian sites

March 2, 2022

 While the G7 (today with the addition of Japan) mobilize to shut down Russia’s access to the Swift banking system, the country has been running campaign corralling developers to join an “IT army” tasked with specific cyber challenges. It’s also making specific calls to technology leaders to do their part. The “IT Army of Ukraine“, announced yesterday and already …

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Anonymous declare “cyber war” against Russia

February 25, 2022

Hacker collective ‘Anonymous’ has declared a “cyber war” against Russia, claiming to have disabled several Russian government websites and that of RT. Social media accounts claiming to represent the group announced on Thursday evening that they were “officially in cyber war against the Russian government,” and had taken down dozens of websites in response to the country’s military action …

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Russia is using an onslaught of cyber attacks to undermine Ukraine’s defense capabilities

February 25, 2022

As Ukrainian cities come under air attack from Russian forces, the country has also suffered the latest blows in an ongoing campaign of cyber attacks. Several of Ukraine’s bank and government department websites crashed on Wednesday, the BBC reports.  The incident follows a similar attack just over a week ago, in which some 70 Ukrainian government websites crashed. Ukraine and …

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After cyberattack on Ukraine, western allies point at Russia but have no detailed response plan

February 20, 2022

“The largest DDoS attack in Ukraine’s history,” according to the digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fyodorov, took place this past Tuesday, Feb. 15 — just one month after a previous attack.  The attack targeted the websites of the defense ministry and armed forces as well as two of Ukraine’s two largest banks – PrivatBank and Oschadbank. Starting at 3pm that day, …

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Facebook report: Russian groups spread disinformation about Western covid vaccines

August 12, 2021

In its July 2021 “Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report,” Facebook announced that it banned 63 Facebook accounts and 243 Instagram accounts for spreading disinformation about Western coronavirus vaccines. The flagged content included various memes about the supposed dangers of COVID-19 shots, especially AstraZeneca, and numerous comments posted elsewhere in English, Hindi, Spanish, and Portuguese. The disinformation …

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Facebook takes down rival networks from Russia and France for attempted interference in African countries

December 17, 2020

Facebook has removed three networks originating in Russia and France for violating its policy against foreign interference, the company reported on Tuesday, December 15. According to Facebook, these networks were responsible for carrying out “coordinated inauthentic behavior” targeting multiple countries in North Africa and the Middle East. While Facebook has removed Russian “troll factories” for …

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UK, US and Canada allege Russian cyberattacks on Covid-19 research centers

July 16, 2020

Russian cyber actors are targeting organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine development, according to a new warning by US, UK and Canadian security officials on Thursday that details activity by a Russian hacking group called APT29, which also goes by the name ‘the Dukes’ or ‘Cozy Bear.’ An advisory published by the UK National Cyber Security …

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New hints in leaked recordings: Russian spy agencies intertwined with bitcoin exchanges

November 29, 2019

In 2018, US Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed precise evidence in alleging how Russia’s military intelligence agency used bitcoin transactions to mask meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.  Earlier this month, new glimpses into the shadowy world of cryptocurrencies emerged in a BBC Russian Service report that provided more indications of how exactly Russian spy agencies …

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Reuters: Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts

June 29, 2019

Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018, deploying a rare type of malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts, four people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The malware, called Regin, is known to be used by the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance of …

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US report exposes GPS spoofing in Russia and Syria

April 8, 2019

C4ADS, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to data-driven analysis of conflict and security issues worldwide, has released a report to “expose GPS spoofing in Russia and Syria.” Used for a variety of civil and military purposes, GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are vulnerable, remind the authors of the report: “By attacking positioning, …

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Washington Post: US Cyber Command attacked Russian “troll factory” on day of 2018 midterms

February 28, 2019

“The US military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms,” The Washington Post wrote today. The strike targeted the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company controlled by Kremlin-connected catering tycoon Evgeny Prigozhin. It was “part of the first offensive cyber campaign against …

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US government considers specific sanctions against Kaspersky Lab

April 27, 2018

Kaspersky Lab could be targeted by specific sanctions “as part of a wider round of action carried out against the Russian government,” CyberScoop reported earlier this week, refering to “US intelligence officials familiar with the matter.” The Russian cybersecurity company has two ongoing lawsuits against the US government, which were filed in response to the recent …

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