“Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They can come back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided.” That two-line comment, submitted by major Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, accompanied a patch that removed about a dozen names from the kernle’s MAINTAINERS file. “Some entries” notably had either Russian names or .ru email… Read More »
reader comments 33 Federal authorities have arrested a Nashville man on charges he hosted laptops at his residences in a scheme to deceive US companies into hiring foreign remote IT workers who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in income to fund North Korea’s weapons program. The scheme, federal prosecutors said, worked by getting US… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 43 with 0 posters participating Share this story Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested the founder of Bitzlato, a cryptocurrency exchange they said has been a financial haven for Russia-aligned criminals engaged in ransomware and illicit drug sales on the dark web. Anatoly Legkodymov, a 40-year-old Russian national residing in Shenzhen, China,… Read More »
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The day after Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner sent a letter to Google warning it to be on alert for… 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 »
Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images reader comments 29 with 23 posters participating Share this story US officials on Thursday formally blamed Russia for backing one of the worst espionage hacks in recent US history and imposed sanctions designed to mete out punishments for that and other recent actions. In a joint advisory, the National Security Agency,… Read More »
reader comments 130 with 81 posters participating Share this story Businesses, governments, and organizations that are hit by crippling ransomware attacks now have a new worry to contend with—big fines from the US Department of Treasury in the event that they pay to recover their data. Treasury Department officials made that guidance official in an… Read More »