An alleged Russian hacker wanted by both Washington and Moscow has been extradited to the United States, Reuters reported.
Yevgeny Nikulin is accused of hacking big Internet companies including LinkedIn and Dropbox in 2012 and 2013. In the United States, he faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted on...
The United States Department of State has announced it imposed sanctions on two Israeli companies that the authorities claim cooperated in a Russian cyber attack against American authorities, Haaretz reported.
The companies, Embedi and ERPScan were founded by Elia Medvedovski who serves as the general manager of both companies which...
Sony Corp production studio Sony Pictures Television and Russian media holding company National Media Group (NMG) have set up a joint venture to operate Sony’s pay television channels in Russia, NMG said on Monday.
According to Reuters, NMG said it was buying 80 percent in a company broadcasting Sony channels...
An American broadcasting company based in Florida is suing the Department of Justice for requiring that the media company register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), according to Newsweek.
RM Broadcasting LLC, a company operating out of Jupiter, Florida, is required to sign up as...
Russia’s long-serving Soviet-era Proton launch vehicles will not be replaced by newer Angara systems until 2024, an industry official said at an aerospace conference in the city of Kazan, Engadget reports.
Yuri Koptev, Chairman of the Science and Engineering Board of the state-run corporation Rostec, said that Proton rockets will apparently...
Russian lawmakers have proposed a bill under which Russia will abandon the global World Wide Web under the pretext of national security, Gazeta.ru reports.
The country would switch to the use of its own domain name system and Internet traffic routing, where only Russian websites will work, says the draft...
Russia has postponed the second reading of their cryptocurrency draft laws by one more month. The State Duma, which is the lower house of parliament, unanimously voted to move the reading to April, state-owned news agency TASS reported. No explanation was offered as to why the reading was pushed forward.
The motion...
Hackers from the Dutch secret service AIVD have given the FBI ‘crucial’ information about Russian efforts to interfere with the U.S. elections, according to an investigation by the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant.
The paper claims that AIVD experts were able to monitor the work of a Russian hackers group named as...
South African classifieds business OLX Group has announced an investment of $1.16 billion to acquire a further 29.1 percent stake in Avito, the leading online general classifieds and property platform in Russia, TechCrunch reports.
The move, announced last week, raises OLX's stake increases from 70.4 percent to 99.6 percent on...
Russian analysts say it is possible that Splunk, a major U.S. IT company specializing in cybersecurity and big data analytics, was withdrawing from the Russian market due to political reasons, Kommersant writes.
The cybersecurity firm explained the decision by saying it is due to its revised investment strategy. However, Splunk’s...
