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Kremlin Denies UK Claims of Vote Meddling, Vaccine Hacking
2020-07-17 10:19

The Kremlin on Thursday denied claims by Britain that "Russian actors" sought to meddle in last year's general election and that Russian intelligence services most likely hacked coronavirus vaccine research. "We have no information on who could have hacked pharmaceutical companies and research centres in Britain," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the TASS news agency.

It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously
2020-05-29 06:08

The NSA has raised the alarm over what it says is Russia's active exploitation of a remote-code execution flaw in Exim for which a patch exists. The American surveillance super-agency said [PDF] on Thursday the Kremlin's military intelligence hackers are actively targeting some systems vulnerable to CVE-2019-10149, a security hole in the widely used Exim mail transfer agent that was fixed last June.

It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously
2020-05-29 06:08

The NSA has raised the alarm over what it says is Russia's active exploitation of a remote-code execution flaw in Exim for which a patch exists. The American surveillance super-agency said [PDF] on Thursday the Kremlin's military intelligence hackers are actively targeting some systems vulnerable to CVE-2019-10149, a security hole in the widely used Exim mail transfer agent that was fixed last June.

Samsung will be Putin dreaded Kremlin-approved shovelware on its phones, claims Russia
2020-02-20 10:03

The Russian government, via mouthpiece RIA Novosti, has claimed Korean tech giant Samsung will comply with a controversial Russian law passed in November that forces smartphones and computers to come pre-installed with domestic-made shovelware. "Samsung Electronics will be ready to meet the requirements of the Russian legislation provided by the regulator and adapt the company's activities in accordance with the adopted regulations," the state-owned wire service quoted a "Representative" as telling it.

While we were raging about Putin's meddling and Kremlin hackers, Five Eyes were pwning Yandex, Russia's Google
2019-06-27 21:39

... Are ... are we the baddies? Hackers from the Five Eyes intelligence agencies have been accused of breaking into systems at Yandex, dubbed Russia's Google.…

How do you sing 'We're jamming and we hope you like jamming, too' in Russian? Kremlin's sat-nav spoofing revealed
2019-04-02 05:05

You satmad, bro? Misinformation coming from Russia isn't merely an internet phenomenon; it also affects navigation systems.…

No big deal... Kremlin hackers 'jumped air-gapped networks' to pwn US power utilities
2018-07-24 05:28

'Hundreds' of intrusions, switch could be pulled anytime, where have we heard this before? The US Department of Homeland Security is once again accusing Russian government hackers of penetrating...

Microsoft: The Kremlin's hackers are already sniffing, probing around America's 2018 elections
2018-07-20 21:04

Russia's Fancy Bear crew caught gearing up for mid-terms Microsoft says it has already uncovered evidence of Russian government-backed hacking gangs attempting to interfere in the 2018 US mid-term...

Kremlin hacking crew went on a 'Roman Holiday' – researchers
2018-07-16 17:16

Fancy that! APT28 fingered for Italian job Researchers have claimed the infamous APT28 Kremlin-linked hacking group was behind a new cyber-espionage campaign they believe was targeted at the...

Indictment bombshell: 'Kremlin intel agents' hacked, leaked Hillary's emails same day Trump asked Russia for help
2018-07-13 19:13

Charges filed against dozen suspected Russian spies American prosecutors have accused 12 suspected Russian spies of hacking Democrat and Hillary Clinton campaign officials to leak their sensitive...