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Malicious Software Used by Russian Spies Sabotaged by FBI
The FBI has sabotaged a suite of malicious software used by elite Russian spies, US authorities said on Tuesday, providing a glimpse of the digital tug-of-war between two cyber superpowers. Senior law enforcement officials said FBI technical experts had identified and disabled malware wielded by Russia's FSB security service against an undisclosed ...
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SolarWinds Hackers Linked to Known Russian Spying Tools, Kaspersky Investigators Say
The group behind the global SolarWinds cyber-espionage campaign discovered last month deployed malicious computer code with links to spying tools previously used by suspected Russian hackers, researchers said.
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Hacker Gets 5 Years for Russian-Linked Yahoo Security Breach
A young computer hacker who prosecutors say unwittingly worked with a Russian spy agency was sentenced to five years in prison.
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US, British Governments Warn Businesses Worldwide of Russian Campaign to Hack Routers
Russia is accused of conducting a massive campaign to compromise computer routers and firewalls around the world - from home offices to Internet providers - for espionage and possibly sabotage purposes.
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Nuclear Scientists Logged On To One Of Russia's Most Secure Computers To Mine Bitcoin
Several scientists working at a nuclear weapons facility in Russia were arrested this week on the suspicion that they used one of the country's most powerful supercomputers to mine bitcoins, the BBC reported.
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Kaspersky Says It Obtained Suspected NSA Hacking Code From US Computer
Kaspersky said it had stumbled on the code in 2014 when the consumer version of its popular software flagged a zip file as malicious on a US computer.
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Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped The NSA That Its Tools Had Been Breached
In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that could only have come from the National Security Agency.
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Russian Government Hackers Exploited Antivirus Software To Steal US Cyber Capabilities
Russian government hackers lifted details of U.S. cyber capabilities from a National Security Agency employee who was running Russian antivirus software on his computer, according to several individuals familiar with the matter.
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Russians Used Kaspersky Program To Steal US Cyber Secrets: Report
Russian hackers exploited anti-virus software made by Kaspersky Labs to steal top secret materials of the US National Security Agency off an NSA contractor's computer, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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HP Enterprise Said to Let Russia Scrutinise Pentagon's Cyber-Defence System
HPE allowed a Russian defence agency to review the inner workings of cyber-defence software used by the Pentagon to guard its computer networks, Reuters reports.
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Malicious Software Used by Russian Spies Sabotaged by FBI
The FBI has sabotaged a suite of malicious software used by elite Russian spies, US authorities said on Tuesday, providing a glimpse of the digital tug-of-war between two cyber superpowers. Senior law enforcement officials said FBI technical experts had identified and disabled malware wielded by Russia's FSB security service against an undisclosed ...
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SolarWinds Hackers Linked to Known Russian Spying Tools, Kaspersky Investigators Say
The group behind the global SolarWinds cyber-espionage campaign discovered last month deployed malicious computer code with links to spying tools previously used by suspected Russian hackers, researchers said.
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Hacker Gets 5 Years for Russian-Linked Yahoo Security Breach
A young computer hacker who prosecutors say unwittingly worked with a Russian spy agency was sentenced to five years in prison.
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US, British Governments Warn Businesses Worldwide of Russian Campaign to Hack Routers
Russia is accused of conducting a massive campaign to compromise computer routers and firewalls around the world - from home offices to Internet providers - for espionage and possibly sabotage purposes.
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Nuclear Scientists Logged On To One Of Russia's Most Secure Computers To Mine Bitcoin
Several scientists working at a nuclear weapons facility in Russia were arrested this week on the suspicion that they used one of the country's most powerful supercomputers to mine bitcoins, the BBC reported.
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Kaspersky Says It Obtained Suspected NSA Hacking Code From US Computer
Kaspersky said it had stumbled on the code in 2014 when the consumer version of its popular software flagged a zip file as malicious on a US computer.
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Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped The NSA That Its Tools Had Been Breached
In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that could only have come from the National Security Agency.
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Russian Government Hackers Exploited Antivirus Software To Steal US Cyber Capabilities
Russian government hackers lifted details of U.S. cyber capabilities from a National Security Agency employee who was running Russian antivirus software on his computer, according to several individuals familiar with the matter.
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Russians Used Kaspersky Program To Steal US Cyber Secrets: Report
Russian hackers exploited anti-virus software made by Kaspersky Labs to steal top secret materials of the US National Security Agency off an NSA contractor's computer, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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HP Enterprise Said to Let Russia Scrutinise Pentagon's Cyber-Defence System
HPE allowed a Russian defence agency to review the inner workings of cyber-defence software used by the Pentagon to guard its computer networks, Reuters reports.
