Section: US & Canada
Russian digital hit list reveals vast hacking operation
People walk through Red Square in Moscow on March 7, 2017 in Moscow, Russia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) WASHINGTON – The hackers who upended the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defence contractors and thousands of...
Belarusian, Ukrainian Presidents Discuss Ties In Abu Dhabi
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for talks in the United Arab Emirates. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Weaken From Within
Let us review, if only in brief, some of the facts as they are presently understood. Two years ago, a shadowy company based in Russia called the Internet Research Agency began buying Facebook ads in bulk. An estimated 11.4 million people across the United States saw these ads, both before and after the U.S. presidential election. Many millions...
Russia Hackers Hit List Exposes Targets Worldwide Beyond Clinton Campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list obtained...
It wasn’t just Hillary: Russian hackers have been targeting lots of high-profile people
(Credit: tommaso79 via iStock/Salon) A new report reveals that a digital hit list attributed to Russian hackers contained extensive targets far beyond the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. The digital hit list revealed that a hacking group known as Fancy Bear — which experts have long believed was connected to the Russian government — tried...
New York attack turns focus to Central Asian militancy
KIEV, Ukraine — The terrorist attack in New York on Tuesday was carried out by a young man from Central Asia, a former backyard of the Soviet Union known for poverty, isolation and repressive governments — all elements in breeding some of the most militant Islamist activity in the world. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Russia hackers had targets worldwide, beyond US election
WASHINGTON (AP) — The hackers who upended the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list obtained by...
Ukrainian Interior Minister’s Son Released From Detention
A Kyiv court has released the 29-year-old son of Ukraine’s powerful interior minister after his arrest the day before by anticorruption officials on embezzlement charges. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Interior Minister’s Son Released From Detention
A Kyiv court has released the 29-year-old son of Ukraine’s powerful interior minister after his arrest the day before by anticorruption officials on embezzlement charges. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Digital hit list exposes Russian hacking beyond U.S. elections
The hackers who upended the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defence contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list obtained by The Associated...
