Washington is weighing sanctions against Russian cyber security company Kaspersky Lab as part of a wider round of measures against the Russian government, U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the matter told CyberScoop.
According to the reports, the planned measures would be a considerable expansion and escalation of the U.S. government’s...
Russia seems to be defying the West’s outrage over the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine by using its economic influence in the region. In the latest example of this policy, the Russian Ministry of Construction, Utilities and Housing has found an Austrian partner for the implementation of the “Smart...
Russia has threatened to block Facebook as the authorities attempt to extend their control of the Internet and shut down the encrypted messaging service Telegram, Business Insider reported.
Alexander Zharov, the head of Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state communications watchdog, said it would conduct a check of Facebook in 2018 to see whether...
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state communications regulator on Tuesday said it had blocked IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon in order to ban the Telegram messaging service.
Roskomnadzor’s head Alexander Zharov said it had blocked 18 sub-networks and a significant number of IP-addresses belonging to Google and Amazon, the Interfax news agency...
One of the largest cryptocurrency mining farms in Russia will be established in the Krasnoyarsk region, in the heart of Siberia, Daniel Zakomolkin, director general of the mining company BitBaza, told TASS news agency last week.
Zakomolkin said that the region was chosen “from the perspective of energy and cost reduction”....
The number of smartphones sold in Russia in the first quarter of this year remained at last year’s levels, but revenue from sales increased by 23%, Kommersant reported citing a study handset retailer Svyaznoy.
According to the study, Russians are more actively buying flagship devices, including Chinese brands, thus raising...
The Russian government has started legal proceedings on Friday to block the Telegram messaging app in the country, The Independent reported. The Roskomnadzor media regulator is seeking the block because the firm has refused to hand over encryption keys used to scramble messages.
Telegram was launched in 2013 by the...
A San Francisco court postponed the bail hearing of suspected Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin, after prosecutors said he tried to escape, Bloomberg reported.
Nikulin was extradited from the Czech Republic at the request of the U.S. a few days ago, after a long legal battle and a row with...
Russian company IBS IT Services said on Wednesday it plans an initial public offering (IPO) on the Moscow Exchange, as it aims to tap Russia’s economic recovery and reviving domestic demand for information technology services, Reuters reported.
The shares, both new and existing, will be offered by the company as well...
Three top Facebook executives described In separate posts on Tuesday the company's latest efforts to protect the integrity of elections around the world by removing accounts, ads and other content generated by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA), The New York Times reported.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog...
