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Google offers free DDoS protection to Ukrainian organizations
Google continues to see DDoS (distributed denial of service) attempts against Ukrainian sites and urges anyone close to the conflict to use Google protection for free.
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Google joins the race to buy Mandiant - media
Alphabet Inc’s Google aims to buy Mandiant, a major cybersecurity firm. A person familiar with the subject told The Information...
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Romanian gas giant hacked and held to ransom
The firm responsible for a major gas station network in Romania has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, with the gang responsible demanding millions to return stolen data.
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Samsung downplays fears over hacking attack
The mobile tech giant has admitted to suffering a recent data breach, but sought to scotch rumours about the severity of the attack.
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Cloudflare moves customer encryption key material out of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus
Cloudflare, a web infrastructure security company, extended its services to the Ukrainian government, telecom, and any Ukrainian organization facing an attack at no cost.
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TikTok suspends livestreaming and new uploads in Russia
Media outlets are forced to suspend reporting in Russia after Vladimir Putin signed a so-called 'fake news' law that threatens journalists with up to 15 years in jail.
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Latest Anonymous leak contains Yandex, Gmail, and Mail.Ru logins
Anonymous claims to have successfully breach Yandex.ru. However, their leak seems nothing more than just a combination of previous leaks.
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Ukrainian embassy in London suffers from constant cyberattacks
Just as it has recently seemed like calm before the storm on the cyber front, the Ukrainian embassy to the...
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Volunteer hackers urge targeting Russian GPS
Ukraine's 'IT army,' a volunteer hacker collective, announced it would target the Russian satellite-based navigation system, GLONASS. Hacker group announced...
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Russian cybercriminals fear SWIFT ban, don't trust crypto
Russia's ban from the SWIFT system will impact cybercriminals, too. Threat actors fear the country's going back to the Soviet...
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Ukraine's tech diaspora to cybersecurity firms: drop Russian clients
Ukrainians in Western tech firms urge companies to help their homeland by knocking down disinformation websites. Techies of Ukrainian heritage...
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Prominent hackers target Russia’s satellite infrastructure
Updated 3 March. A group of hackers affiliated with Anonymous claim to have disrupted Russia’s vehicle monitoring system. NB65 hackers...
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US banks brace for cyberattacks amid harsher Russian sanctions
As the West tightens its financial grip on Russia by introducing increasingly more “stringent” sanctions, US banks are preparing to...
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Conti leaks: pro-Ukrainian member exposed more gang’s chats and Trickbot’s source code
Ransomware group Conti, which recently announced its allegiance with Vladimir Putin, is paying a high price for siding with Russia. An insider continues leaking sensitive Conti data, including internal chats, TrickBot source code, and even unmasking its members.
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Rumors about the app being hacked are false - Signal
Updated on 2 March. The company said the false information is likely a part of a misinformation campaign. The encrypted...
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Cyber army grows as digital partisans flock to Ukraine banner
As casualties mount in the conventional field, hacker groups are signing up in droves to join the conflict’s cyber campaign.
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Cyberattacks in Ukraine raise concerns under the Geneva Convention - Microsoft's president
Cyberattacks on emergency response services and humanitarian aid go beyond the wartime rules nations agreed on. Microsoft has an obligation...
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Hackers breach Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation
The group known as “AgainstTheWest” (ATW) published claims to have breached the company founded by Vladimir Putin himself. The screenshots...
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A sophisticated Chinese hacking tool evaded attention for a decade – research
The tool was designed for attacks against hardened networks in espionage campaigns against select governments and other critical infrastructure targets....
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Major Russian media outlets hacked
Many Russian media outlets, including state-owned news agency TASS, were hacked. Cyber pro-Ukrainian activists have replaced their websites with anti-war messages.
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