Venezuelan and Russian government officials met last week in Moscow to discuss the launch of Venezuela's new petro cryptocurrency, Coindesk reported.
The terms of the meeting remain unclear, but it seems that Russian officials have taken an interest in Venezuela's state-backed digital currency. What are the implications for a potential...
U.S. intelligence officials found evidence that voter registration systems or websites in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed operatives before the 2016 election but never told the states, NBC News reported.
The Department of Homeland Security denied the report, which a spokesman called “factually inaccurate and misleading” in a statement.
NBC, citing...
A Russian court today ruled that the Russian subsidiary of U.S. technology conglomerate Hewlett-Packard (HP) must pay a $1.9 million levy destined to compensate intellectual property rights holders, the Russian legal news agency RAPSI reported.
A Moscow commercial court rejected an appeal by the company and ordered it to pay...
U.S. intelligence sources claim that Russia, not North Korea, was behind the cyber attacks at the start of the Winter Olympics, The Washington Post reports.
Citing officials from the U.S. intelligence community, the Post says that Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) gained access to around 300 computers, hacked routers, and...
The Russian parliament reviewed this week a proposal by a local representative of the Russian Association of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain (RACIB) to “tame and test” crypto technologies in the Crimea region, Bitcoin reports.
The representative told deputies the republic’s jurisdiction can be used to “test the new phenomenon”. RACIB has...
Lawmakers and foreign allies are upset by the German government’s reluctance to condemn Russia for the devastating “NotPetya” cyber attack last year, Handelsblatt reports.
Last week, the United States joined Britain in condemning the Russian military for unleashing a virus that crippled parts of Ukraine’s infrastructure and damaged computers in...
The export volumes of Russian software and development services climbed from 10% to 12% in 2017 reaching $8.5 billion, Kommersant reported citing data provided by the Russian Software Developers Association (RUSSOFT).
The anti-Russian sanctions have hurt Russian software sales in the United States and the European Union, which made...
Countries around the world lose $600 billion every year due to cybercrime fueled by growing sophistication of hackers and proliferation of criminal marketplaces and cryptocurrencies, researchers said Wednesday, AFP reported.
A document published by security firm McAfee with the Center for Strategic and International Studies found theft of intellectual property...
Social-media companies like Facebook and Twitter were thoroughly played by Russian propagandists, the election-interference indictment brought by Robert Mueller, the U.S. special counsel, shows.
As the full scope of Russian election meddling reveals, it's not clear if Facebook and Twitter have taken sufficient action to prevent something similar from happening...
Facebook will undergo a more detailed check into its compliance with the Russian law in the second half of 2018 than Twitter, chief of Russia’s telecom and IT watchdog Alexander Zharov told reporters on Tuesday.
The Russian communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, will check whether Twitter is in compliance with the law...
