Russian hackers break into air-gapped US networks
Hacked vendors
US Homeland Security has found evidence that Russian hackers have broken into supposedly secure, "air-gapped" or isolated networks owned by utilities.
Russians ready to hack your car
They've got a blinking swerve
A top brass from the UK's army has warned that Vladimir Putin's cybertroops may well target British traffic lights and Belisha beacons and other vulnerable points as the move to IP based systems builds up a head of steam.
Kaspersky starts packing its bags
Moving to Switzerland
In a move to dispel acusations that it is a pawn in President Vladimir Putin's spy games. security outfit Kaspersky is moving a number of "core processes" from Russia to Switzerland.
German networks face Russian invasion
Fancy bear infiltrating German networks
Germany is investigating a security breach of its defence and interior ministries' private networks, a government spokesman has confirmed.
Russian military hacked the Olympics and blamed North Korea
Revenge for stopping cheating attempt
The Russian military was so furious that Russian athletes packed full of performance enhancing drugs were banned from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea that they hacked the opening ceremony and tried to pin it on North Korea.
Hackers nicked $6 million from a Russian bank
It appears they got away with it
Unknown hackers stole $6 million from a Russian bank last year in an attack using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the Russian central bank said.
UK accuses Russia of spying attacks
NotPetya came from Russia
Britain has named and shamed Russia for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt Benckiser.
US sanctions causing Microsoft problems in Russia
Cutbacks
Two of Microsoft’s official Russian distributors have imposed restrictions on sales of Microsoft software to more than 200 Russian companies following new US sanctions.
Net infrastructure faces Russian threat
Cutting edge
A UK military Air Chief Marshall has warned that the cable infrastructure which keeps the internet running is in danger of being disrupted by Russia.
Facebook tests if the Russians fooled readers
Building a portal
Facebook is building a portal that will let some users see if they liked or followed Russian propaganda from Internet Research Agency Facebook Pages or Instagram accounts between January 2015 and August 2017.