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Why Russia’s “disconnection” from the Internet isn’t amounting to much

Enlarge (credit: Sean Gladwell / Getty Images) Rumors of Russian Internet services degrading have been greatly exaggerated, despite unprecedented announcements recently from two of the world’s biggest backbone providers that they were exiting…

Feds extradite ransomware suspects from 2 prolific gangs in a single week

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / iStock) Federal prosecutors extradited two suspected ransomware operators, including a man they said was responsible for an intrusion that infected as many as 1,500 organizations in a single…

The secret US mission to bolster Ukraine’s cyber defenses ahead of Russia’s invasion

Enlarge (credit: gwengoat | Getty Images) Months before the Russian invasion, a team of Americans fanned out across Ukraine looking for a very specific kind of threat. Some team members were soldiers with…

Brave takes on the creepy websites that override your privacy settings

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Some websites just can't take "no" for an answer. Instead of respecting visitors' choice to block third-party cookies—the identifiers that track browsing activity as a user moves from site…

New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cybercriminals who use giant floods of data to knock sites offline are leveraging a never-before-seen method that has the potential to increase the damaging effects of those floods by…

Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Linux has yet another high-severity vulnerability that makes it easy for untrusted users to execute code capable of carrying out a host of malicious actions including installing backdoors, creating…

Attackers can force Amazon Echos to hack themselves with self-issued commands

Enlarge / A group of Amazon Echo smart speakers, including Echo Studio, Echo, and Echo Dot models. (Photo by Neil Godwin/Future Publishing via Getty Images) (credit: T3 Magazine/Getty Images) Academic researchers have devised…

Hackers stoke pandemonium amid Russia’s war in Ukraine

Enlarge (credit: Elena Lacey | Getty Images) On Thursday, hackers defaced a Russian Space Research Institute website and leaked files that they allege are stolen from Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Their message?…

Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Data extortionists who stole up to 1 terabyte of data from Nvidia have delivered one of the most unusual ultimatums ever in the annals of cybercrime: allow Nvidia's graphics…

Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) A Ukraine government official on Monday asked the nonprofit group that oversees the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) to shut down DNS root servers in Russia…