Russia
Russian cyber attack on US Power Utilities for blackout
Hackers claimed to be from Russia are reported to have succeeded in penetrating into the power utilities of United States last year. Their intention was clear, to cause blackouts across America and cause panic and chaos among the populace. An official statement released a few hours ago from Department of Homeland Security claims that the […]
Microsoft says it stopped Russian cyber attacks on 2018 US Election candidates
Tom Burt, the Vice President for Customer Security at Microsoft said at the Aspen Security Forum that his company stopped Russian cyber attacks on at least 3 candidates running for 2018 US elections. Burt added that the attacks which were in the form of phishing emails were launched by Russian military Intelligence Group Aka GRU, […]
Vladimir Putin denies his country tried to hack the murder probe of Skripals Nerve Agent Attack
Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied the allegations that Moscow was trying to hack the murder probe of Novichok Poisonings and demanded to see evidence in this regard. The statement was given by Putin himself just after his meeting with US President Donald Trump in Helinski. Since, Thursday last week, prominent media sources have been […]
Blame Barack Obama for Russian Cyber Attack on Democratic Email Servers
US President Donald Trump has blamed Barack Obama for failing to prevent Russia’s cyber attack on democratic email servers. The statement was issued by the 45th president after the news broke out on Friday that 12 Russian military officers were involved in conducting espionage on the email servers of the Democrats in 2016 which eventually […]
Microsoft warns US Government of Facial Recognition Use abuse
For the first time in history, Microsoft which is a top American technology company has come into open to criticize the use of facial recognition technology by the US government. It says the abuse of the technology will create hurdles to the law of protecting people’s privacy and freedom of expression. In a blog post […]
No Cyber Attacks on FIFA World Cup 2018
Just a few hours ago the final match of FIFA World Cup 2018 was conducted in Russia’s Luzgniki Stadium between France and Croatia and it was France which bagged the World Cup Football 2018 title for the second time. No doubt the game was thrilling even though most of the time the ball was shuffled […]
Russia creates its own Domain Name System Internet
Russia which is being led by Vladimir Putin for the 4th time has announced that it has almost completed the creation of an alternative to “Domain Name System” AKA DNS. In technical terms, DNS is nothing but a phone book which converts numerical IP addresses into readable text like Facebook.com and Youtube.com. The implementation date […]
Russian hackers break into Gmail accounts of US Officials
Russia sponsored hacking group named Fancy Bear is found to be hacking into the Gmail accounts of many US officials- all a part of cyber an espionage campaign. And its said that FBI knew about this interception, but couldn’t disclose it to the world for various reasons. Cybersecurity firm SecureWorks has brought this fact into […]
Vladimir Putin urges the world to fend off cyber attacks on a collective note
All these days we have seen many nations including the US, UK, and Ukraine alleging that Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin have malicious intentions to launch cyber attacks on developed countries in order to create a political instability in the respective nations which would help the Russian federation emerge as a world leader in […]
Cyber Crooks are now turning to Cryptojacking from Ransomware attacks
Kaspersky Labs latest report suggests that Cyber Crooks are turning to crypto jacking from ransomware attacks and that’s due to the fact that the former is proving more profitable than the latter. The report compiled by the Russian Cybersecurity firm suggests that the total number of users who encountered ransomware has fallen by around 30 […]
