- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 26th, 2016
New PonyForx Infostealer Malware Sold on Russian Hacking Forums
PonyForx is a fork of the more popular Pony infostealer
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 21st, 2016
German Politicians Targeted with Spyware over the Summer
Attacker posed as NATO employee, used a spoofed NATO email
- Internet Life
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 15th, 2016
Russia Bans PornHub and YouPorn, Tells People to Meet Someone in Real Life
This is the second time Russia bans PornHub
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 12th, 2016
Nuclear Watchdog Suffers DDoS Attack Ahead of North Korea's Nuclear Test
Russia may be behind the attacks as well, not just N. Korea
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 6th, 2016
US State Election System Hacks Connected to Ukraine Power Grid Attacks
Also connected to attacks against Turkey's ruling party
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 30th, 2016
Mystery Solved: Angler Exploit Kit Was Developed by Now-Arrested Lurk Gang
Angler EK was a small part of the huge Lurk infrastructure
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 24th, 2016
Russian State Hackers Tried to Hack New York Times and Other Reporters
NYT admins to cyber-attacks against its Moscow bureau
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 23rd, 2016
Russia Behind World Anti-Doping Agency & International Sports Court Hacks
Anonymous Poland might be a sockpuppet account
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 14th, 2016
Hacker, Son of Russian MP, to Face Trial over $170 Million Hacking Scheme
Roman Seleznev faces up to 65 years in prison
- General Business
- By Bogdan Popa
- August 10th, 2016
Russia Still Using Microsoft Products Despite Law Pushing for Domestic Software
Probe proves agencies not yet ready to abandon Microsoft
- Apple
- By Bogdan Popa
- August 9th, 2016
Apple Investigated over iPhone 6s Price Fixing in Russia
Watchdog: Firm, local resellers violated price fixing laws
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 7th, 2016
Russian APTs Prefer Windows, Office, Internet Explorer Exploits
Russian APTs used 33 vulnerabilities in the last four years
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- August 3rd, 2016
ROSA Desktop Fresh R8 Linux Ships with KDE 4, Plasma 5, GNOME and MATE Flavors
The operating system comes with updated components
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 31st, 2016
Russia Says It Detected Malware on PCs at 20 Government Organizations
Russia reveals cyber-attack against its institutions
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 30th, 2016
Russian State Agencies Suffered More than 10 Million Cyber-Attacks in H1 2016
Many of them were simple DDoS attacks, but nation states were also involved in a large number of incidents
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 29th, 2016
Democratic Group DCCC Announces Hack, Fingers Automatically Point to Russia
CrowdStrike says evidence reveals connection to DNC hack
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 29th, 2016
Russia Finalizes Procedures for Collecting Encryption Keys
Companies sweating as they wait to see Russia's implementation details for its latest encryption backdoor law