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Hackers tied to Russia’s GRU targeted the US grid for years

For all the nation-state hacker groups that have targeted the United States power grid—and even successfully breached American electric utilities—only the Russian military intelligence group known as Sandworm has been brazen enough to trigger actual blackouts, shutting the lights off in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016. Now one grid-focused security firm is warning that a […]

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Russia’s freelance disinformation firms offer propaganda with a professional touch

The same kinds of digital dirty tricks used to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and beyond are now up for sale on underground Russian forums for as little as a few thousand dollars, according to a new report from an internet security company. Businesses, individuals and politicians remain at risk of attack from

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New clues show how Russia’s grid hackers aimed for physical destruction

Joshua Lott/Bloomberg via Getty Images For nearly three years, the December 2016 cyberattack on the Ukrainian power grid has presented a menacing puzzle. Two days before Christmas that year, Russian hackers planted a unique specimen of malware in the network of Ukraine’s national grid operator, Ukrenergo. Just before midnight, they used it to open every

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The Weekly | Russia’s Playbook for Disrupting Democracy

Episode 13: ‘The Blueprint’ Producer/Director John Marks Russia’s brazen interference in the 2016 American presidential election shouldn’t have been a total shock. President Vladimir Putin’s government had done it before, almost a decade earlier in tiny Estonia, where Russian operatives provoked political violence and mounted malicious cyberattacks. In fact, many of the methods Moscow used

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Russia’s Government Prepares New KPI for SEO Managers

Russia’s government has prepared new Key Productivity Indicators (KPI) for top managers of State Owned Enterprises (SEOs) for the next three years, the Vedomosti business daily reported on July 2, citing a decree signed by the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. While most of the old KPIs remain the same and target financial indicators and leverage, the

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Russian government has prepared new Key Productivity Indicators (KPI) for top managers of State Owned Enterprises (SEOs) for the next three years, Vedomosti daily reported on July 2 citing the decree signed by the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. While most of the old KPIs remain the same and target financial indicators and leverage, the changes seek tougher

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Russia’s Plan for 2020 U.S. Presidential Election – Inflaming Racial Discord?

In a Facebook post on May 21, exiled politician Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Russia had a plan for the next presidential election in the U.S. and the plan was to aggravate racial discord in the country. A day earlier, NBC News published documents, which the agency said it had obtained from a London, U.K.-based team of

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