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Russia launches cyber attack on Ukraine President website
Ukraine imposed economic restrictions on Russiaās largest internet group at the end of last week. And as retaliation to this gesture, Russiaās state-funded hackers launched a cyber-attack on Ukraineās President Petro Poroshenkoās website on late Tuesday. The repercussions of the attack are yet to be known. The decision to impose restrictions on Russiaās 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 āWannacryā 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 7thā17 runoff between Macron and […]
Russian spies Cyber Attack Franceās Presidential Probable Macronās Campaign
Emmanuel Macron, who is all set to win Franceās Presidential election was recently cyber attacked by Russian spies. As per our sources, his presidential campaign was intercepted by a hacking group named āPawn Stormā linked to Russiaās 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 Russiaās 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 […]
Russiaās Fancy Bear launched two brutal Cyber Attacks on Germany
Germany has made it official that Russiaās cyber army āAPT28ā-well known as Russian hacking group āFancy 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 OāNeill, the former CIA operative recently shared his thought on why some countries are super-interested in launching cyber attacks on other nationās 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. āOur 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 […]