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Binance tells Russian users with over €10k to withdraw everything
Binance has announced some significant changes in its services for Russia-based users, which mark the company's effort to align with European Union's fifth wave of sanctions against Russia.
- April 21, 2022
- 09:26 AM
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GitHub suspends accounts of Russian devs at sanctioned companies
Russian software developers are reporting that their GitHub accounts are being suspended without warning if they work for or previously worked for companies under US sanctions.
- April 16, 2022
- 10:04 AM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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US eases sanctions that may lead to Russia's Internet isolation
Today, the U.S. has announced exemptions on previously imposed sanctions on Russia related to telecommunications and internet-based communications, likely to prevent Russians from being isolated from Western news sources.
- April 08, 2022
- 09:43 AM
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Intel shuts down all business operations in Russia
US chipmaker Intel announced Tuesday night that it had suspended all business operations in Russia, joining tech other companies who pulled out of the country due to the invasion of Ukraine.
- April 05, 2022
- 11:57 PM
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HackerOne kicks Kaspersky’s bug bounty program off its platform
Bug bounty platform HackerOne disabled Kaspersky's bug bounty program on Friday following sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus after the invasion of Ukraine.
- March 25, 2022
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Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left
Russia faces a critical IT storage crisis after Western cloud providers pulled out of the country, leaving Russia with only two more months before they run out of data storage.
- March 15, 2022
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Russia creates its own TLS certificate authority to bypass sanctions
Russia has created its own trusted TLS certificate authority (CA) to solve website access problems that have been piling up after sanctions prevent certificate renewals.
- March 10, 2022
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US Treasury: Russia may bypass sanctions using ransomware payments
The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) warned U.S. financial institutions this week to keep an eye out for attempts to evade sanctions and US-imposed restrictions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- March 09, 2022
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Piracy OK: Russia to ease software licensing rules after sanctions
The Russian authorities are drafting a set of measures to support the country's economy against the pressure of foreign sanctions, and when it comes to software licensing, the proposal greenlights a form of piracy.
- March 07, 2022
- 11:19 AM
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US sanctions former Ukrainian official for helping Russian cyberspies
The U.S. Treasury Department announced today sanctions against Volodymyr Oliynyk, a former Ukrainian official, for collecting and sharing info on critical Ukrainian infrastructure with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).
- January 20, 2022
- 11:37 AM
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Hackers hit Iran's Mahan airline, claim confidential data theft
One of Iran's largest privately-owned airlines, Mahan Air, has announced a cybersecurity incident that has resulted in its website going offline and potentially data loss.
- November 22, 2021
- 01:30 PM
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US sanctions NSO Group and three others for spyware and exploit sales
The U.S. has sanctioned four companies located in Israel, Russia, and Singapore for the development of spyware or the sale of hacking tools used by state-sponsored hacking groups.
- November 03, 2021
- 11:19 AM
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Evil Corp demands $40 million in new Macaw ransomware attacks
Evil Corp has launched a new ransomware called Macaw Locker to evade US sanctions that prevent victims from making ransom payments.
- October 21, 2021
- 03:07 PM
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U.S. to sanction crypto exchanges, wallets used by ransomware
The Biden administration is expected to issue sanctions against crypto exchanges, wallets, and traders used by ransomware gangs to convert ransom payments into fiat money.
- September 17, 2021
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Ransomware gang threatens to wipe decryption key if negotiator hired
The Grief ransomware gang is threatening to delete victim's decryption keys if they hire a negotiation firm, making it impossible to recover encrypted files.
- September 15, 2021
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New Evil Corp ransomware mimics PayloadBin gang to evade US sanctions
The new PayloadBIN ransomware has been attributed to the Evil Corp cybercrime gang, rebranding to evade sanctions imposed by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
- June 06, 2021
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US sanctions cryptocurrency addresses linked to Russian cyberactivities
The US government sanctioned this week twenty-eight cryptocurrency addresses allegedly associated with entities or individuals linked to Russian cyberattacks or election interference.
- April 18, 2021
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Evil Corp switches to Hades ransomware to evade sanctions
Hades ransomware has been linked to the Evil Corp cybercrime gang who uses it to evade sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
- March 25, 2021
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DarkSide ransomware's Iranian hosting raises U.S. sanction concerns
Ransomware negotiation firm Coveware has placed the DarkSide operation on an internal restricted list after the threat actors announced plans to host infrastructure in Iran.
- November 15, 2020
- 10:01 AM
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EU sanctions Russian hackers over 2015 German parliament attack
The Council of the European Union today announced sanctions imposed on Russian military intelligence officers part of the 85th Main Centre for Special Services (GTsSS) for their involvement in a 2015 hack of the German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag).
- October 22, 2020
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