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Category Archives: Russia

More Russian Hacking

July 2 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cybersecurity, Malware, Microsoft, Russia, Security

Two reports this week. The first is from Microsoft, which wrote:

As part of our investigation into this ongoing activity, we also detected information-stealing malware on a machine belonging...
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The DarkSide Ransomware Gang

June 2 2021 By Bruce Schneier in crime, Cybercrime, Ransomware, Russia, Security

The New York Times has a long story on the DarkSide ransomware gang.

A glimpse into DarkSide’s secret communications in the months leading up to the Colonial Pipeline attack...
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The Misaligned Incentives for Cloud Security

May 28 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Russia, Security

Russia’s Sunburst cyberespionage campaign, discovered late last year, impacted more than 100 large companies and US federal agencies, including the Treasury, Energy, Justice, and Homeland Security departments. A...

Adding a Russian Keyboard to Protect against Ransomware

May 18 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Malware, Ransomware, Russia, Security

A lot of Russian malware — the malware that targeted the Colonial Pipeline, for example — won’t install on computers with a Cyrillic keyboard installed. Brian Krebs wonders...

Ransomware Shuts Down US Pipeline

May 10 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Cybercrime, Ransomware, Russia, Security

This is a major story: a probably Russian cybercrime group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline in a ransomware attack. The pipeline supplies much of the...

Biden Administration Imposes Sanctions on Russia for SolarWinds

April 20 2021 By Bruce Schneier in espionage, Russia, Security

On April 15, the Biden administration both formally attributed the SolarWinds espionage campaign to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and imposed a series of sanctions designed to...

National Security Risks of Late-Stage Capitalism

March 1 2021 By Bruce Schneier in China, cybersecurity, Russia, Security

Early in 2020, cyberspace attackers apparently working for the Russian government compromised a piece of widely used network management software made by a company called SolarWinds. The hack gave...

Another SolarWinds Orion Hack

February 4 2021 By Bruce Schneier in China, FBI, Russia, Security

At the same time the Russians were using a backdoored SolarWinds update to attack networks worldwide, another threat actor — believed to be Chinese in origin — was using...