Economy

February 28, 2022
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After Ukraine recruits an “IT Army,” dozens of Russian sites go dark

Enlarge Cyberspace is feeling the strain of Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine: multiple sites tied to the Kremlin and its…
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February 28, 2022
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Ukraine asks Musk for Starlink terminals as Russian invasion disrupts broadband

Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. (credit: Starlink) SpaceX is sending Starlink user terminals to Ukraine after a…
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February 23, 2022
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Russia’s most cutthroat hackers infect network devices with new botnet malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers for one of Russia’s most elite and brazen spy agencies have infected home and small-office…
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February 18, 2022
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Millions of WordPress sites get forced update to patch critical plugin flaw

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Millions of WordPress sites have received a forced update over the past day to fix a…
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February 17, 2022
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VMware Horizon servers are under active exploit by Iranian state hackers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers aligned with the government of Iran are exploiting the critical Log4j vulnerability to infect unpatched…
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February 16, 2022
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US says Russian state hackers lurked in defense contractor networks for months

Enlarge / What’s happened to Russia’s flag? (credit: Sean Gladwell / Getty Images) Hackers backed by the Russian government have…
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February 16, 2022
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Flood of malicious junk traffic makes Ukrainian websites unreachable

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ukraine’s defense ministry and two banks were knocked offline on Tuesday by a flood of malicious…
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February 15, 2022
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Researchers find threat group that has been active for 5 years

Enlarge / Warning: Data transfer in progress (credit: Yuri_Arcurs/Getty Images) Researchers on Tuesday revealed a new threat actor that over…
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February 14, 2022
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Hacking group is on a tear, hitting US critical infrastructure and SF 49ers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A couple days after the FBI warned that a ransomware group called BlackByte had compromised critical…
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February 12, 2022
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$3.6 billion bitcoin seizure shows how hard it is to launder cryptocurrency

Enlarge / The IRS detailed the winding and tangled routes the couple allegedly took to launder a portion of the…
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