Enlarge / Flag of Russia on a computer binary codes falling from the top and fading away. Getty Images reader comments 21 with 18 posters participating Share this story On March 1, Russian forces invading Ukraine took out a TV tower in Kyiv after the Kremlin declared its intention to destroy “disinformation” in the neighboring… Read More »
gwengoat | Getty Images reader comments 23 with 20 posters participating Share this story For years, a small and disparate Ukrainian team including IT experts, intelligence officers, and a criminal prosecutor has kept a wary eye on a group of hackers nicknamed Armageddon. The hackers were based in Crimea, shielded by the Russian government, which… Read More »
Getty Images | Sundry Photography reader comments 54 with 32 posters participating Share this story More than half a decade has passed since the notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical transmission station north of Kyiv a week before Christmas in 2016, using a unique, automated piece of code to interact directly with… Read More »
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 96 with 63 posters participating, including story author Share this story Intel, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, is suspending business operations in Russia “effective immediately,” the company announced on Tuesday. “Intel continues to join the global community in condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine,” the company… Read More »
Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images reader comments 56 with 44 posters participating Share this story Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to access Twitter from within Russia saw their Internet speed slow to a crawl, no… Read More »
Enlarge / A Viasat Internet satellite dish in the yard of a house in Madison, Virginia. reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband provider whose modems were knocked out in Ukraine and other parts of Europe earlier this month—has confirmed a theory by third-party researchers that new wiper malware with… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 22 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story Some Internet traffic in and out of Twitter on Monday was briefly funneled through Russia after a major ISP in that country misconfigured the Internet’s routing table, network monitoring services said. The mishap lasted for about 45 minutes before RTCOMM,… Read More »
Enlarge / Critical infrastructure sites such as this oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, rely on safety systems. reader comments 27 with 20 posters participating Share this story For years, the hackers behind the malware known as Triton or Trisis have stood out as a uniquely dangerous threat to critical infrastructure: a group of digital… Read More »
Enlarge / US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger speaking during a March 21 White House daily press briefing. reader comments 87 with 48 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Biden administration on Monday warned that it believes Russian state hackers may step up a cyber offensive… Read More »
Wired | Getty Images reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story For years, Russia’s cybercrime groups have acted with relative impunity. The Kremlin and local law enforcement have largely turned a blind eye to disruptive ransomware attacks as long as they didn’t target Russian companies. Despite direct pressure on Vladimir Putin to… Read More »