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Russia issues its own TLS certificate to bypass sanctions

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many Western countries have imposed sanctions prohibiting companies from conducting business in Russia, including public third-party certificate authorities (CA), which issue Digital Certificates and manage the public keys and credentials for data encryption for the end user. One of such Digital Certificates is the Transport Layer Security (TLS), …

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War censorship exposes Putin’s leaky internet controls

President Vladimir Putin was attempting to make Russia’s internet a strong tool of surveillance and social control, similar to China’s so-called Great Firewall, long before waging war on Ukraine. As a result, Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov was frightened when Western tech corporations began breaking relations with Russia following its invasion. He’d spent years exposing …

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Conti Ransomware gang hit with data leak

Conti, a well-known ransomware organization, declared support for Russia when it attacked Ukraine on February 25. It turned out to be a terrible idea: a vast collection of the gang’s secrets was disclosed just days later. The data includes information on hacking activities, the gang’s Bitcoin wallets, and speculation on the future of cryptocurrency as …

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Cyclops Blink: U.S. and U.K. Authorities warn about Russian Malware

Cyclops Blink is a malware developed by the Sandworm Group that sets up a botnet by attacking Network Devices. It is the more advanced framework the group, that is affiliated with the Russian Government, deployed in June 2019 after their VPNFilter malware got exposed. Cyclops Blink mostly targeted network devices by WatchGuard (a network security …

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In the wake of Ukraine-Russia Cyberwar, ‘MuddyWater,’ an Iran-backed hacking group, has been waging global cyber-attacks

With the world’s attention focused on Russia’s multifaceted onslaught on Ukraine, Iranian hackers associated with the country’s military intelligence initiated a worldwide cyber espionage operation, the United States and the United Kingdom said in an unprecedented alert delivered over the weekend. With the Russian invasion under way, digital intrusions and denial-of-service (DDoS) assaults caused havoc on …

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