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Russia launches cyber attack on Ukraine President website

Ukraine imposed economic restrictions on Russiaā€™s largest internet group at the end of last week. And as retaliation to this gesture, Russiaā€™s state-funded hackers launched a cyber-attack on Ukraineā€™s President Petro Poroshenkoā€™s website on late Tuesday. The repercussions of the attack are yet to be known. The decision to impose restrictions on Russiaā€™s Yandex led […]

Hackers launch Ransomware attack on more than 100 countries

A major cyber attack crippling thousands of computers and networks was launched by a group of hackers from North Korea. It is said to be a coordinated cyber attack and has so far hit companies operating in more than 100 countries. The attack was a ā€˜Wannacryā€™ ransomware attack which tricked victims into opening malicious malware […]

Trend Micro confirms Cyber Attack on French Elections

US segment of Trend Micro has confirmed that the recently held French elections were hacked by a group of hackers from Russia. The cyber security firm which has its head office in Japan said that attack was launched just 36 hours before French voters went to polls in a May 7thā€™17 runoff between Macron and […]

Russian spies Cyber Attack Franceā€™s Presidential Probable Macronā€™s Campaign

Emmanuel Macron, who is all set to win Franceā€™s Presidential election was recently cyber attacked by Russian spies. As per our sources, his presidential campaign was intercepted by a hacking group named ā€˜Pawn Stormā€™ linked to Russiaā€™s Military Intelligence Agency GRU. The hackers group launched a phishing campaign between March & April this year and […]

Russia fancy bear launches a cyber attack on IAAF!

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has claimed that Russiaā€™s Fancy Bear launched a cyber attack on its database in the third week of September last year. The attack is believed to have compromised Athletes Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) applications stored on IAAF servers and the governing body has disclosed that details related to medical […]

Putin denies US Election 2016 hack and said CIA can mask its own Cyber Attacks

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied claims that his nation interfered in US Elections 2016 and added that CIA has the potential to mask its own cyber attacks and frame nations like China, Russia, and North Korea for doing so. Putin added that the claims of interference were purely fictional, illusory and provocative lies framed by […]

Russiaā€™s Fancy Bear launched two brutal Cyber Attacks on Germany

Germany has made it official that Russiaā€™s cyber army ā€˜APT28ā€™-well known as Russian hacking group ā€œFancy Bearā€ launched two cyber attacks in 2016 for bringing in a kind of political instability in the region. Arne Schoenbohm, the President for the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) of Germany added in the announcement that the attack […]

Why state-sponsored actors launch cyber attacks?

Eric Oā€™Neill, the former CIA operative recently shared his thought on why some countries are super-interested in launching cyber attacks on other nationā€™s critical infrastructure. As cyber espionage and cyber terrorism have emerged as the most critical threats to public and private sectors in the United States and the United Kingdom, let’s hope that his […]

Russian Government denies involvement in Yahoo Hack!

Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has denied its involvement in hacking US based companies which include Yahoo. Kremlin (FSB) has reiterated the claim that two of Russian spies were involved in launching a massive hack on Yahoo web services which leaked info of more than 50 million accounts. ā€œOur officers or the government is not […]

Russian spies were responsible for cyberattacks on Yahoo!

The law enforcement agencies of United States have arrested four persons responsible for breaking into the database of Yahoo and stealing data related to over 500 million accounts. Out of the four, two are said to be a member of Russian security forces who was acting as spies of the federal nation. It has to […]

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