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Hackers Hail all Taxis in Moscow — HUGE Gridlock for 3 Hours

Hackers Hail all Taxis in Moscow — HUGE Gridlock for 3 Hours

| | Denial of Service, Moscow, Russia, SB Blogwatch, Special Call-Taxi Operation, Ukraine, Yandex
Ukraine supporters hacked Russia’s biggest ride hailing app, Yandex Taxi. They sent every available cab to a single address, all at once ...
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KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

| | A Little Sunshine, Akamai, Cambridge University, CloudFlare, ddos, google, Meris, MikroTik, Project Shield, Qrator, Richard Clayton, The Coming Storm, Yandex
On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault came from "Meris," the same new "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet behind ...
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Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

| | A Little Sunshine, BadB, C++, CryptoPro, FBI, Federal Security Service, FSB, GOST, Lance James, Treasury Department, Unit221B, VirusTotal, Vladislav Horohorin, Yandex
KrebsOnSecurity recently had occasion to contact the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In the process of doing so, I encountered a ...
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Internal Leak of 4,887 Users: Yandex Employee Fate Unknown

Internal Leak of 4,887 Users: Yandex Employee Fate Unknown

| | insider threat, Privacy, Russia, SB Blogwatch, Yandex
Russian web titan Yandex NV suffered an insider breach: An employee was selling sensitive user data to anyone who would pay ...
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