News archive on the topic "cyberwar"

The number of personal data leaks in Russia has more than doubled over the past year. Co-founder of the Kaspersky Lab company Natalya Kasperskaya told reporters at the State Duma of the Russian Federation today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I don’t remember such growth in recent years. Completely unprecedented. And the number of leaks has increased around the world, but especially in Russia. There were large scale leaks...

Private intelligence companies (PRK) control the entire power apparatus in Russia. IT entrepreneur Igor Ashmanov stated this in an interview with RTVI TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “These companies perform tasks such as leading specific people for intelligence. There is such a ChRK - “The Sixth Anomaly”. She leads, I think, several million people around the world. She leads all officials to...

After the hacking of the American Delta force control program, the Russian Ministry of Defense had the opportunity to change and correct the data of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that was there. The participants of the broadcast on the Zvezda TV channel spoke about this, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent. Advisor to the head of the DPR, Yan Gagin, noted that after the hacking of the Delta program, the Ukrainian command would no longer be able to trust its intelligence data. “We are talking about electronic...

In addition to the previously hacked American DELTA command and control program, hackers penetrated the Ukrainian artillery control system and also hacked the personal page of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the Joker DNR channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. The authors of the channel noticed that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine began to deny the previously published fact of hacking DELTA. However, even the Ukrainian propagandist Yuri Butusov admitted the fact of penetration...

The call by the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, to launch cyber strikes on Ukraine’s critical information infrastructure was somewhat belated, given the colossal work that the enemy is doing in the Internet space. Experts - Deputy of the State Council of Crimea Nikolai Volkov and ex-deputy Sergei Shuvainikov - spoke about this on Radio Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Where and how to strike is decided...

With the help of Western countries, official Kyiv managed to establish cyber defense and reduce the number of successful hacker attacks and itself went on the offensive in the cyber war, as a result of which Russia lost its advantage over Ukraine in cyberspace. The American publication The Wall Street Journal writes about this, citing sources among current and former Western officials. Western employees quoted by the publication...

Media specialists of the Russian Federation, in connection with the increasing frequency of attacks on the country’s information space, are developing bills to effectively combat telephone fraud and malicious sites. Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Alexander Shoitov spoke about this at a meeting of the Federation Council, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He noted that the bill, supported by the Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Justice, Roskomnadzor, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB...

The Ukrainian cyber police blocked 2000 Russian Internet resources with an audience of more than 17 million users. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reports this. “News from the fight on the cyber front: about 2000 enemy resources with a total audience of more than 17 million users have been blocked,” the message says. Users of thematic snitching Telegram channels helped block cyber police resources: https://t.me/stoprussiachannel and https://t.me/stopdrugsbot. More than 170 have already joined them...

The United States may launch a massive cyber attack against Russia in the coming weeks. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant reports, citing a publication in The New York Times. It is noted that the US administration blames Moscow for hacking the systems of a number of American strategic ministries and departments and decided that sanctions are now not enough, and therefore it will be...

The US Cyber ​​Command launched the first operation with the aim of “preventing the spread of disinformation and Russian interference in the elections,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The New York Times reports this. “United States Cyber ​​Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere with elections,” the report said. Cyber ​​operations carried out in recent...

Dutch Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld said that her country is in a state of cyber war with Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The head of the Dutch defense department said this in an interview with a local TV channel, reports the Ukrainian service of Deutsche Welle. When asked whether the current state of affairs between the two countries could be called a cyber war, she replied: “Yes, that is the case.” “We have to get rid of...