Category: russian

Tesla worked with the FBI to block a million dollar ransomware attack

Post author By Randall
Post date August 27, 2020
Categories In arrested, attack, doj, extortion, fbi, gear, gigafactory, malware, nevada, News, ransomware, russian, Tech, Tesla

[ad_1] The employee immediately informed Tesla, and the company contacted the FBI, which launched a sting operation. Agents arrested Kriuchkov in Los Angeles as he was attempting to leave the US. As Electrek points out, during the sting operation, FBI agents obtained info about previous attacks led by Kriuchkov’s associates. They didn’t confirm which companies […]

Russian hacker behind an elite crime forum pleads guilty to multiple charges

Post author By Randall
Post date January 27, 2020
Categories In aleksei burkov, cardplanet, cyber crime, cyber criminal, Cybersecurity, device fraud, directconnection, fraud, gear, identity theft, Internet, marketplace, membership, Politics, Russia, russian, Security, stolen data, Tech

[ad_1] Burkov was arrested in 2015 at an airport near Tel Aviv. In 2017, an Israeli district court approved his extradition to the US, but Russia fought that decision for years. As Krebs on Security points out, the Russian government may be concerned that Burkov knows too much. In late 2019, Burkov was extradited to […]

US sanctions two Russians for meddling in 2018 midterm elections

Post author By Randall
Post date September 30, 2019
Categories In 2020 election, disinformation, elections, internet research agency, ira, meddling, Politics, Russia, russian, sanctions, Security, Tech, tomorrow, treasury department, us treasury

[ad_1] Thanks to the Mueller Report, we know that the IRA exposed 126 million Americans on Facebook to Russian-backed propaganda during the 2016 US presidential election. The group attempted to use disinformation to sway the 2018 midterm elections, too. US Cyber Command took the IRA offline on the day of the elections, and the Department […]