Russian hacking group MoneyTaker has stolen close to $1 million from the country’s PIR Bank at the beginning of this month, in the latest of a series of similar cybercrimes committed by the prolific cyber thieves, BBC reports.
The July 3 heist came about five weeks after the sophisticated hackers...
Russia’s Association of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain (RACIB) has created a registry consisting of whitelisted companies that deal in cryptocurrency related products and services, Bitcoin News reports. The registry includes firms in areas like crypto mining, investment, marketing, and initial coin offerings (ICOs).
The Association noted that since the beginning of...
Facebook gave Mail.Ru, a major Russian internet company with ties to the Kremlin, access to the data of millions of people in the United States without their knowledge, CNN reported.
Facebook told the news network on Tuesday that apps developed by the Mail.Ru Group were being looked at as part...
Russia’s Arctic part may become a big data hub for international companies, an expert of the Project Office for Arctic Development, Academician Alexander Vorotnikov told TASS.
During his yearly national Q&A session on June 15, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said the country’s future depends on the development of the digital...
One of the world's largest producers and sellers of asbestos has reportedly begun placing a seal with President Trump's face on its products, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
Uralasbest has adorned pallets of its products with Trump's face and the message, “Approved by Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States."
The newspaper...
The first Russian commercial space flights carrying tourists into orbit could be organized by KosmoKurs company seven years from now, Vedomosti reports.
The company signed an agreement with the Scientific and Production Association of Automatics (part of state space agency Roscosmos) to develop an on-board control-telemetry system for commercial civil-purpose rocket...
Russia’s biggest pharmaceutical associations have appealed to State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, asking the government to reject a call from the Federal Security Service for cryptographic protections on medicines to guard against “illegitimate goods.”
According to the Rambler.ru, the drug manufacturers worry that the...
Russian company Legium has launched a platform for signing these contracts. In them, you define the names of the participants and also specific sexual activities that you agree to during the intercourse, such as kisses with and without tongue or using sex toys, Cryptofeed.ru reports.
Such a contract bears legal power...
In order to comply to a controversial new law on storing data, Russian telecom operators will have to use foreign technology, two industry sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The development comes despite President Vladimir Putin telling his government to ensure local companies produced the equipment, the sources...
Dating apps have seen a significant surge in users and traffic since the soccer World Cup kicked off in the Russian capital last week, Gazeta.ru reported.
Tinder experienced a big boost in those seeking dates, according to Russian mobile operators. In June, traffic of the dating service tripled among the clientele...
