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Assessing the habits and tactics of organized credit card fraud gangs
By analyzing hundreds of criminal forums, Digital Shadows discovered a new trend in the form of remote learning ‘schools’. Available to Russian speakers only, these six-week …
Russia threatening to ban Telegram encrypted messaging app
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s communications regulator, is threatening to ban the use of popular encrypted messaging app Telegram. The request Roskomnadzor is a federal agency …
U.S. charges Russian FSB officers for hacking Yahoo, millions email accounts
A grand jury in the Northern District of California has indicted four defendants, including two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), for computer hacking, …
US officially accuses Russia of hacking to influence presidential election
With just a month left until the 2016 United States presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence officially …
New Russian law to force service providers to decrypt encrypted comms
An extremely wide-ranging anti-terrorism law has been passed last week by the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly (i.e. parliament), and it is widely expected to pass …
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