I paid for a trip to Lake Tahoe and wanted to placate my Russian-speaking friend with alcohol. I avoided cameras and was afraid of wiretapping. That is exactly how, according to representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Russian unsuccessfully tried to lure an employee of a Nevada IT company over to his side in order to get $ 4 million. About ...
A Russian hacker group carries out ransomware attacks on American companies using vulnerabilities in the systems of their employees working from home. Writes about this BBC. Evil Corp hackers tried to gain access to at least 31 networks of organizations in order to damage systems and demand ...
For almost six years, a Russian disinformation campaign has been operating covertly on 300 social media platforms using seven languages, according to analysts at Graphika, writes Voice of America. The campaign, which the researchers called "Secondary Contagion," involved the dissemination of false tweets purporting to be from American and European...
Russian internet trolls appear to be changing strategy in their attempts to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election. According to cybersecurity experts, the trolls are now focusing on fueling political discord through fake social media accounts instead of creating ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced that Russian hackers have developed and launched malware onto the network that infects Internet routers. The program called VPNFilter is capable of intercepting network traffic, collecting personal data from the user and even destroying the device on which it has been installed ...
On January 23, the US government returned to work in full, but Russia tried to benefit from a nearly three-day partial shutdown of government agencies. On January 22, President Donald Trump signed into law funding the government until February 8, however, Twitter accounts linked ...
The Russian propaganda campaign, which targeted Americans, was hosted, at least in part, on American soil. The company, owned by a man on Staten Island, provided online services for DoNotShoot.Us, a Kremlin propaganda site that posed as a portal for victims of police shootings,...
US intelligence agencies concluded that Russian hackers, acting on behalf of the Kremlin, influenced the 2016 US presidential election. The Bell, based on the testimony of sources familiar with the situation, has collected a chronology of events and data from the investigation. FSB Colonel Sergei Mikhailov ...
Russian-linked hackers gained access to 195 Internet addresses belonging to American leader Donald Trump, his family members, and the companies he owns. This, citing its own sources, reported the Associated Press. Hacks occurred in 2013, attacks were ...
Russian hackers tried to hack the electoral systems of 21 US states during the 2016 presidential elections. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said this, speaking before Congress, writes Reuters. According to the Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, Janet Manfra, Russian hackers ...