Cybersecurity specialists discovered that attackers had adapted infected Word files to mine cryptocurrency, writes Lenta.ru with reference to the company VOTIRO Secured. Documents are infected by embedding specialized JavaScript code containing a miner. After sending seemingly harmless Word files, recipients are connected to the system...
The District Court of Camden, New Jersey, sentenced Russian citizens Vladimir Drinkman and Dmitry Smilyants, who were accused of committing the largest hacker attack in US history. According to TASS, 37-year-old Drinkman was sentenced to 12 years in prison. After that he in ...
A U.S. intelligence spokeswoman said Wednesday that Russia was able to “successfully infiltrate” voter registration systems in a small number of states in 2016, Voice of America reported. Jeannette Manfra, who oversees cybersecurity issues at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, told NBC News that the goals...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) hid from American officials, including senior officials, that hackers from the Fancy Bear group, which are associated with the Russian government, tried to break into their mailboxes. Among the victims of the attackers, whom the department knew about, were the military, ...
The Uber taxi ordering service was hacked, as a result of which the data of 57 million passengers and drivers of the company were stolen. According to the BBC, the incident occurred in October 2016, but it became known about it only now. Instead of reporting ...
Russian Stanislav Nazarov was extradited to the United States from Israel, accused of money laundering as part of an international criminal organization. Specifically, he is charged with laundering profits from a fraudulent operation, the victim of which was a large insurance company in India. According to the BBC, 46-year-old Nazarov, who lived in the city ...
Israeli intelligence agencies hacked into the network of Kaspersky Lab's antivirus and warned the US that the company was monitoring users, writes RTVi. The invasion in question happened back in 2014. Then the Israeli special services hacked into the corporate system of "Kaspersky" and began to monitor the activities of the company. ...
Russian investor Pavel Cherkashin, based in San Francisco, believed he had come up with the perfect name for his IT palace, which he is creating in a Catholic church, bought for $ 11,5 million. The chosen name sounded like Hack Temple (Temple of hacking). But he invented it even before the powerful poured out ...
The US presidential administration believes that the personal phone of the current White House chief of staff, John Kelly, could have been hacked. The newspaper Politico writes about this, citing three government officials. White House technical support suspected a hack after Kelly complained about an incorrect ...
Hackers working for the Russian government have stolen details of how the US National Security Agency infiltrates foreign computer networks and protects its networks from cyber attacks. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources. The data was stolen after an Agency employee posted the materials ...