Security News

Court rules to ban access to Telegram in Russia
2018-04-13 19:47

It didn’t take long for judge Yuliya Smolina of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow to rule that the Telegram secure messaging service should be blocked on the whole territory of Russia. She...

Britain Says Russia Spied on Skripals Before Poisoning
2018-04-13 13:15

Russia was spying on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were poisoned with a nerve agent, Britain's National Security Adviser Mark...

Fake Hillary porn just the tip of Russia’s Reddit penetration
2018-04-13 12:05

How Russian trolls embraced rule 34 (but Redditors didn't buy it)

GCHQ boss calls out Russia for 'industrial scale disinformation'
2018-04-12 15:46

Kremlin 'blurring boundaries between criminal and state activity' – director GCHQ‬ boss Jeremy Fleming has hailed the success of a cyber-offensive against ISIS last year and warned of the growing...

How state actors like Russia perpetrate cyberattacks
2018-04-12 15:38

Carson Sweet, CTO of CloudPassage, explains the hacking tactics used by nation-states.

Here's how hackers are targeting Cisco Network Switches in Russia and Iran
2018-04-09 06:48

Since last week, a new hacking group, calling itself 'JHT,' hijacked a significant number of Cisco devices belonging to organizations in Russia and Iran, and left a message that reads—"Do not mess...

Cisco Switches in Iran, Russia Hacked in Apparent Pro-US Attack
2018-04-09 05:36

A significant number of Cisco switches located in Iran and Russia have been hijacked in what appears to be a hacktivist campaign conducted in protest of election-related hacking. However, it’s...

Sofacy Targets European Govt as U.S. Accuses Russia of Hacking
2018-03-16 14:40

Just as the U.S. had been preparing to accuse Russia of launching cyberattacks against its energy and other critical infrastructure sectors, the notorious Russia-linked threat group known as...

U.S. Hits Russia With Sanctions for Election Meddling
2018-03-15 15:33

Donald Trump's administration on Thursday levied sanctions against Russia's top spy agencies and more than a dozen individuals for trying to influence the 2016 US presidential election and...

Top US General: Response to Russia Not Unified
2018-03-09 13:03

Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: America's top general says the U.S. response to Russian election interference isn't as well coordinated as it needs to be, and Pennsylvania...