Tag Archives: Cyberattacks

MOSCOW, RUSSIA| Xinhua | Russian election authorities said Saturday that about 160,000 cyberattacks on the country’s remote electronic voting resources were blocked. The attacks were mainly directed toward the voting portal, with 30,000 attacks launched against the monitoring portal for the remote electronic voting system, said Ella Pamfilova, head of …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | The West has been using Ukraine as a launchpad to carry out cyberattacks against Russia and test new cyber warfare technologies, RIA Novosti news agency reported Wednesday, citing Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov. In an interview with RIA Novosti, Syromolotov said that a vast majority …

Africa Data Centres provides colocation for the first Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Managed Root Server in Africa NAIROBI, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT |  Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group is to be the colocation provider for the first ICANN Managed Root …

Washington, US | XINHUA | Some U.S. media has reported that the United States and Israel are involved in a joint strategy to conduct clandestine strikes on Iran’s nukes sites and carry out hits on certain generals. It remains unclear if this assertion from a recent New York Times report …

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP |  Reporters investigating Russian military intelligence have been targeted by highly sophisticated cyberattacks through their encrypted email accounts, with evidence suggesting Moscow was responsible, the email service provider ProtonMail and journalists said Saturday. The phishing attack, which sought to dupe users into sharing their ProtonMail passwords, was …

Washington, United States | AFP | Cyberattacks cost the United States between $57 billion and $109 billion in 2016, a White House report said Friday, warning of a “spillover” effect for the broader economy if the situation worsens. A report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers sought to …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  The world’s biggest ransomware attack levelled off on Monday after wreaking havoc in 150 countries, but Russian President Vladimir Putin called it payback for the US intelligence services. Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer Brad Smith has said the US National Security Agency developed …