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Russian Legislators Approve Greater Government Control Over the Internet and Nonprofits | NYTimes
MOSCOW — Russia’s upper house of Parliament moved to strengthen controls over the Internet and nonprofit organizations on Wednesday, prompting a warning from the United Nations human rights chief that the Kremlin is sliding back into Soviet ways. A series of initiatives have been introduced as President Vladimir V. Putin begins a six-year term, facing [...]
Russian authorities arrest operator of Carberp bank botnet | SC Magazine
Russian authorities have apprehended the person believed to be behind a banking trojan botnet responsible for stealing around $4.5 million from unsuspecting victims. The 22-year-old Russian man is accused of using a modified versions of the Carberp banking trojan to steal login details and digital signatures from compromised computers, according to a statement Friday from [...]
Russian cybercrime market doubles in size | Help Net Security
Russian cybercrime investigation and computer forensics company and LETA Group subsidiary Group-IB released a 28-page report prepared by analysts from its computer forensics lab and its CERT-GIB unit on the Russian cybercrime market in 2011. The report outlines the main risks associated with various types of hacker activities, analyzes the main trends in the development [...]
Russian MVD announces arrest of CARBERP gang | CyberCrime & Doing Time
Today the Russian MVD and FSB have announced the arrest of eight cybercriminals who have stolen more than 60 million rubles ($2 million USD) from at least ninety victim bank accounts in the charges documented in this case. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del or Министерство внутренних дел) better known as the MVD [...]
US names China and Russia as key cyber threats – SC Magazine UK
Attempts to steal US technological and economic information represent a growing and persistent threat to the country’s economic security, according to a report by its National Counterintelligence Executive. In a report, it claimed that as the US is a technology leader, it expects the nature of the cyber threat to evolve with continuing IT advances. [...]
Russian cyber criminal steals $3.2 millions in 6 months – Help Net Security
A Russian resident in his early 20s is believed to be the leader of a tightly knit gang using banking Trojans and money mules to earn themselves millions of dollars. The actions of this group have been followed quite a while by Trend Micro researchers, who say that “Soldier” – as the young gang leader [...]
Cyber-Extortion Scam Issues False Child Porn Accusations – MalwareCity
Russian Cyber-Criminals Lock Computers, Seeking Payment of $17 `Fines’ Russian cyber-criminals are coupling false accusations of child pornography with real software damage in a new scam that attempts to extort 500-ruble ($17) payments out of victims, according to an analysis by Bitdefender. Once infected with Trojan.Agent.ARVP malicious software, spread via innocent-seeming links, the victim receives [...]
