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FBI Director Chris Wray said Wednesday that Russia is engaged in "Information warfare" heading into the 2020 presidential election, though he said law enforcement has not seen ongoing efforts by Russia to target America's election infrastructure. "Unlike a cyberattack on an election infrastructure, that kind of effort - disinformation - in a world where we have a First Amendment and believe strongly in freedom of expression, the FBI is not going to be in the business of being the truth police and monitoring disinformation online," Wray said.
Aleksei Burkov, an ultra-connected Russian hacker once described as "An asset of supreme importance" to Moscow, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to running a site that sold stolen payment card data and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among its members some of the most elite Russian cybercrooks. Burkov, 29, admitted to running CardPlanet, a site that sold more than 150,000 stolen credit card accounts, and to being the founder and administrator of DirectConnection - a closely guarded underground community that attracted some of the world's most-wanted Russian hackers.
A Russian national pleaded guilty Thursday to running a website that helped people commit more than $20 million in credit-card fraud. Aleksei Burkov, 29, of St. Petersburg, Russia, entered the plea to charges including fraud and money laundering in a federal court in Alexandria.
A 29-year-old Russian scumbag has admitted masterminding the Cardplanet underworld marketplace as well as a second forum for elite fraudsters. Aleksei Burkov appeared in a US federal district court in Virginia this week to plead guilty [PDF] to access device fraud, and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, identity theft, wire and access device fraud, and money laundering.
Aleksei Burkov, a 29-year-old Russian hacker, on Thursday pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges for running two illegal websites that helped cyber criminals commit more than $20 million in credit card fraud. The first website Burkov operated was an online marketplace for buying and selling stolen credit card and debit card numbers-called Cardplanet-which roughly hosted 150,000 payment card details between the years 2009 and 2013.
Hackers with ties to the Russian government have been targeting Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma with a series of phishing attacks designed to steal employee credentials, according to researchers at Area 1 Security. Russian hackers' attacks on Burisma appear to have started around November, according to the Times.
A phishing campaign apparently aimed at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that is at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment, has been linked by cybersecurity researchers to a hacker group believed to be working on behalf of the Russian government. Area 1 Security, a California-based cybersecurity firm that specializes in anti-phishing solutions, on Monday published a report describing a phishing campaign apparently aimed at Burisma, its subsidiaries and its partners.
Greece's justice ministry has decided to extradite to France Russian Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly headed the bitcoin exchange BTC-e, on suspicion of money laundering, a ministry source said...
Russian law enforcement officers have raided the Moscow offices of Nginx—the company behind the world's second most popular web server software—over a copyright infringement complaint filed by...
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Gamaredon has been targeting various Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement since mid-October 2019, threat...