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Kaspersky to Launch Unhackable Phone Mostly Dedicated to Businesses
Russia’s leading cybersecurity and anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab is set to present in fall 2021 a secure mobile platform based on KasperskyOS for the industrial and corporate sector for pilot use, CEO Eugene Kaspersky said.
“I will not tell you the buyers who will test our secure mobile device this fall. These are big, large corporations that are waiting for it, they need it so that...
Major Cybersecurity Firm says US pipeline hijacking is in fact a CIA Inside Job
A cyberattack that crippled fuel supplies on the East Coast of the US and sent gas prices soaring could have been an inside job conducted by American spooks, rather than foreign hackers, a prominent Russian IT expert has claimed.
After a massive systems failure caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down, Natalya Kaspersky, the founder and former CEO of security software firm Kaspersky Lab, as well...
Wikileaks Drops ‘Vault 8’: CIA Wrote Code Impersonating Russian Anti-Virus Giant
WikiLeaks says it has published the source code for the CIA hacking tool ‘Hive,’ which indicates that the agency-operated malware could mask itself under fake certificates and impersonate public companies, namely Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.
The CIA multi-platform hacking suite ‘Hive’ was able to impersonate existing entities to conceal suspicious traffic from the user being spied...
Ransomware virus plagues 100k computers across 99 countries
A ransomware virus is spreading aggressively around the globe, with over 100,000 computers in 99 countries having been targeted, according to the latest data. The virus infects computer files and then demands bitcoins to unblock them.
An increase in activity of the malware was noticed starting from 8am CET (07:00 GMT) Friday, security software company Avast reported, adding that it “quickly...
Ukraine imposes trade embargo on Russia
Deputies of the Ukraine’s parliament have voted in favor of introducing a trade embargo against Russia. This is a response to Moscow cancelling a free trade agreement with Ukraine as the country joins the European market.
According to proposer Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk the embargo will begin on January 1, the same date the Ukraine Association Agreement with the EU comes into force.
The...
NSA, GCHQ targeted Kaspersky, other cybersecurity companies - Snowden
US and British spy agencies worked to reverse-engineer antivirus software in order to “exploit such software and to prevent detection of our activities.” Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab was particularly targeted.
Citing documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden more than two years ago, The Intercept reported Monday that the US National Security Agency (NSA)...