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Russian Hacking Tools Codenamed WhiteBear Released

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Sep

2017

Kaspersky Labs released a highly sophisticated set of hacking tools from Russia called WhiteBear From February to September 2016, WhiteBear activity was narrowly focused on embassies and consular operations around the world. All of these early WhiteBear targets were related to embassies and diplomatic/foreign affair organizations. Continued WhiteBear activity later shifted to include defense-related organizations […]

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NSA Document Outlining Russian Attempts to Hack Voter Rolls

12

Jun

2017

This week brought new public evidence about Russian interference in the 2016 election. On Monday, the Intercept published a top-secret National Security Agency document describing Russian hacking attempts against the US election system. While the attacks seem more exploratory than operational, they further illustrate the real threats and vulnerabilities facing our elections, and they point to solutions.

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Attackers use hacked home routers to hit Russia’s 5 largest banks

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Dec

2016

Botnets made up of hacked home routers were used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against the five largest financial organizations in Russia. The attacks occurred on Monday, Dec. 5, and were detected and mitigated by Rostelecom, Russia’s state-owned telecommunications company. The attacks peaked at 3.2 million packets per second (Mpps) and the longest attack lasted […]

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