Russia
Germany puts cyber attack blame on Russia for disrupting its general elections
Germany has officially put the blame on Russian government for launching cyber attacks to disrupt the country’s general elections. The Germany Ministry issued a public statement on this note yesterday and stated that it has reliable information that the GRU Military Intelligence service involved in espionage tactics where it stole login credentials of some bureaucrats […]
Russia hacks US Political Party, and Biden elevates ransomware as National Security Priority
Russia is back in news and that too for hacking the Republican National Committee (RNC) last week. However, the good news is that there was not data steal in the incident and that was confirmed by the spokesperson of RNC. APT29 aka Cozy Bear, a hacking group funded by Kremlin is suspected to be behind […]
Joe Biden to discuss with Russia Putin on Cyber Attacks on the United States
White House has formally disclosed that Joe Biden will likely discuss cyber attacks that are taking place on the US National Infrastructure with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a conference to be held in Geneva later this month. The development comes after the Biden administration asked for a report from DHS on the ransomware attack […]
Cyber attack on Norway Parliament and Russia Kremlin website down
Last year, in September Norway Parliament was hit by a cyber attack and the suspicion finger was raised at Russia as a press release from the spokesperson confirmed so in October 2020. After 6 months of attack, a fresh incident seems to have reportedly taken place on Monday this week as a parliament spokesperson says […]
SolarWinds hack might trigger Cyber Attack on Russia says intelligence
Russian intelligence from Kremlin has warned that the public and private companies operating in their country are at a major risk of facing a massive cyber attack soon. The nation has warned that United States could launch the attack in retaliation to the SolarWinds scandal, aka SolarGate. It has to be notified that Russian intelligence […]
Laptops supplied to children in UK are filled with Russian Malware
The laptops that are being supplied to the children in schools operating in Bradford, Lincolnshire, and Wolverhampton are reported to be filled with Russian malware. The issue was confirmed by the school teachers of the respective schools, who added that the PCs were likely contacting the servers operating in the nation led by Vladimir Putin. […]
Russian data hack saga on SolarWinds seems to be a never-ending story
A new story is emerging day by day when it comes to the data hack of SolarWinds. And according to the latest update provided from a resource of Microsoft, the source code of certain Microsoft Products was accessed by hackers in Orion platform related supply chain cyber attack. Although Microsoft claims that the latest hack […]
Russian businesses lose $49 billion to Cyber Attacks
Till date we have seen news posts regarding Russian intelligence launching cyber attacks on the West. But Sberbank, a largest money lender in Russian Federation, has released a report that claims that the loss incurred by Russian companies because of cyber attacks in 2020 was 3.6 trillion rubles or $49 billion in international currency. In […]
Russia celebrates 100th anniversary for Cyber Attacks
Vladimir Putin, the Russian President who is likely going to step down from his designation in Feb 2021 (because of health reasons) has congratulated the SVR, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service for completing its 100th anniversary on Sunday and urged them to focus more on Information Security. The president also lauded the Moscow based SVR for […]
GCHQ launched Cyber Attack on Russia Anti-Vaccine campaign
It is a known fact that some hacking groups, probably funded by the Russian Government were immensely seen targeting the development of Oxford Vaccine with monkey memes and much disinformation. As the scientists from UK are close to finding a vaccine to block the spread of COVID-19 spread, Russian TV programme- Vesti News was seen […]
