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Konstantin Vishnyak, 42, was cleared by Southwark Crown Court in London, England, of destroying documents relevant to a now-discontinued investigation into insider trading. It was reported that Vishnyak, formerly of VTB Capital, deleted the app and messages from his iPhone - one of two handsets he gave to police - not out of fear of an investigation into insider trading, but rather in an effort to conceal his friendship with Andrei Lugovoi, the Russian politician wanted in connection with the polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.

A Russian hacker who was found guilty of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring over eight years ago has finally been sentenced to 88 months in United States prison, that's more than seven years by a federal court in San Francisco this week. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 32, of Moscow hacked into servers belonging to three American social media firms, including LinkedIn, Dropbox, and now-defunct social-networking firm Formspring, and stole data on over 200 million users.

A Russian scumbag found guilty of hacking into LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring - and stealing data on over 200 million users - has been sent down for more than seven years. Yevgeniy Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in an American prison by a federal court in San Francisco this week though the judge in this case, William Alsup, was surprisingly kind about the 32-year-old Russian.

A Russian national was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The man, Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, who will turn 33 next month, was charged in 2016 for using stolen employee credentials to access without authorization the systems of LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring.

In one instance, Facebook removed 35 pages, 18 groups, 214 users as well as 34 accounts on Instagram. As part of the announcement, Facebook also revealed details about the number of followers and advertising expenditures related to these accounts.

A Russian citizen accused of offering a Tesla employee $1 million to enable a ransomware attack at the electric car company's plant in Nevada denied wrongdoing Thursday before a federal magistrate judge. Kriuchkov, 26, also told U.S. Magistrate Judge Carla Baldwin that he knew the Russian government was aware of his case.

A hacking group whose members are Russian speakers is targeting organizations in Russia and post-Soviet countries with ransomware, Group-IB's security researchers have discovered. The adversary employs phishing as means to compromise enterprise networks, and has been observed impersonating the self-regulatory organization Mikrofinansirovaniye i Razvitiye; the Minsk Tractor Works plant in Belarus; a Russian metallurgical holding company; the Russian media group RBC; and a dental clinic, Group-IB explains.

A new cybercriminal group called OldGremlin has been targeting Russian companies - including banks, industrial enterprises and medical firms - with ransomware attacks. The Russian-speaking cybercriminal group targets other Russian organizations, which researchers say is a big no-no within the Russian hacker community.

As ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure continue to spike in recent months, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new entrant that has been actively trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers in Russia. The ransomware gang, codenamed "OldGremlin" and believed to be a Russian-speaking threat actor, has been linked to a series of campaigns at least since March, including a successful attack against a clinical diagnostics laboratory that occurred last month on August 11.

German authorities probing a cyber attack on a hospital's IT system that led to a fatal delay in treatment for a critically ill woman believe the software used can be traced back to Russian hackers. In an update to lawmakers published on Tuesday, prosecutors wrote that hackers used malware known as "Doppelpaymer" to disable computers at Duesseldorf University Hospital on September 10, aiming to encrypt data and then demand payment to unlock it again.