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Ukraine points finger at Russian security services in recent cyber attack
Ukraine said on Saturday that Russian security services were involved in a recent cyber attack on the country, with the aim of destroying important data and spreading panic …read more Source: The Daily...
Focus on defense after new global cyberattack
Thousands of computer users across the globe scrambled to reboot Wednesday as calls grew to step up defenses after a fresh wave of ransomware cyberattacks spread from Ukraine and Russia worldwide. …read more Source: The Daily...
NATO Chief: Cyber Attacks A Call to Arms
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned the alliance must step up its defense against cyberattacks, saying they could potentially trigger their Article 5 mutual defense commitment. Computer users around the world were scrambling Wednesday to reboot systems after a tidal wave of ransomware cyberattacks spread from Ukraine and Russia across Europe to...
Former Trump campaign chairman registers as foreign agent
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, registered Tuesday with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for political consulting work he did for a Ukrainian political party, acknowledging that he coached party members on how to interact with U.S. government officials …read more Source: The Daily...
New Wave of Cyberattacks Spreads from Russia across Globe
A wave of cyberattacks hit Russia and Ukraine before spreading to western Europe and North America on Tuesday, in the second global outbreak of so-called ransomware in less than two months. Ukraine’s central bank, Kiev’s main airport, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site, and a string of multinational companies, including US...
New cyberattack causes mass disruption in Europe
PARIS: A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard. …read more Source: The Daily...
Kiev car bomb kills colonel in Ukrainian military intelligence: defense ministry
A Ukrainian serviceman killed by a car bomb in Kiev on Tuesday was a colonel for Ukraine’s military intelligence, the defence ministry said in a statement …read more Source: The Daily...
United States beefs up Russia sanctions
The U.S. Tuesday imposed a fresh round of trade sanctions on Russia and Ukrainian separatists, toughening the stance just as President Donald Trump was hosting his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko. …read more Source: The Daily...
Trump transition team ordered to save materials on Russia, Ukraine: NYT
President Donald Trump’s transition team has been ordered to preserve materials related to ongoing investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, the New York Times reported on Friday, as Trump again assailed the probes …read more Source: The Daily...
Putin Says Russia to Beef up Syrian Military
Russia’s medium-term plans in Syria include improving the capabilities of the Syrian armed forces which would allow Russian troops to relocate to existing Russian bases in the country, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. “We aim to establish a process, a political settlement [in Syria] between all the sides involved,” Putin also said...
