Russian Hackers

Following a joint investigation that was led by the National Crime Agency, the UK and US have revealed the identities of several Conti and Trickbot members.

Denis Gennadievich Kulkov, in an indictment unsealed by a US District Court in New York, is charged with device fraud, computer intrusion and money laundering.

The UK government's cyber defence agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on Ukraine.

Police arrested 119 people in an international operation led by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dutch police.

European embassies in Nepal, Kenya, Guyana, Italy, Lebanon, Liberia and Bermuda were targeted by the attackers.

British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson branded a series of global cyberattacks blamed on Russia as the reckless actions of a "pariah state,"

According to the WSJ, the hackers used conventional spoofing mechanisms to gain access to America's power grid

Trump's remarks were a stark illustration of his willingness to upend decades of U.S. foreign policy and rattle Western allies in service of his political concerns.

Russian president said evidence so far produced was not enough to prove interference or to begin action against the accused Russians.

Officials believe the Olympics cyberattack was in retaliation to the International Olympic Committee's decision to ban Russia over the state-sponsored doping scandal.

For their roles in what US prosecutors have called "one of the largest" known cybercrime schemes, two Russian nationals were handed lengthy prison terms this week.

The vulnerability allowed hackers to install a backdoor that allowed them to gain remote control of victims' systems.

"I clicked on it and instantly knew that I had been had," one retired Air Force major general, who was sent a dubious phishing link, said.

"Timing is the only thing that links the two so far," a cybersecurity expert said.

The Dutch intelligence agency reportedly gained access to Cozy Bear's networks in 2014 and also located the hacker group's headquarters.

Cybersecurity experts warned that the group was targeting multiple International Olympic Wintersport Federations in the second half of 2017.

The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the Senate.

A Twitter profile linked to suspected Russian hackers, which last year pushed out stolen health documents of Olympic athletes, resurfaced on Wednesday - leaking files.

The group has been using this attack technique in campaigns since at least July 2016, ESET researchers said.

The FBI reportedly purchased biometric data from a French firm, which contains code created by a Russian company with close ties to the Kremlin.

A Russian-speaking hacking group – dubbed "MoneyTaker" – has covertly stolen up to $10 million from global banking targets in under two years, new research suggests.

UK Government officials are being warned against using Russian anti-virus software Kaspersky following accusations in the US it is being used for espionage.

Dmitry Medvedev, the PM of Russia, today (30 November) said that state-sponsored hacking and espionage is normal, criticising the belief that every hack has Kremlin links.

Eugene Kaspersky believes that recent bad press around his cybersecurity company is the result of a co-ordinated campaign by US politicians, law enforcement and media.

Fancy Bear is widely believed to have orchestrated the cyberattacks against the Democratic National Party during the 2016 presidential election.

Russian hackers are using the dark web to go on luxury holidays that are heavily subsidised by air miles stolen from UK residents.

Whereas once the West was responsible for everything good in the world, today it is the source of everything that is bad.

The Russian hackers' new phishing campaign involves the use of a blank malicious document titled "IsisAttackInNewYork".

The sites were reportedly infiltrated a few months before Trump traveled to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in November 2013.

The AP investigation revealed that Russian-linked hackers used brute force tactics for months to try and break into the emails of people across the Democratic Party.