The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

The United States and key allies have accused the Chinese government for the first time of hiring gangs of hackers to carry out cyberattacks in the West. Russia was also blamed for 2020’s SolarWinds hack, which breached a number of US federal government entities, and to which the US responded with new economic sanctions.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

“I appeal to you,” Fedorov wrote in the letter, published through his Twitter account , “to stop supplying Apple services and products to the Russian Federation, including blocking access to App Store!”. If you agree to have the president-killer, then you will have to be satisfied with the only available site Russia 24.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Twitter is putting a temporary hold on advertisements in Ukraine and Russia to ensure the visibility of public safety information. We’re temporarily pausing advertisements in Ukraine and Russia to ensure critical public safety information is elevated and ads don’t detract from it. Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) February 25, 2022.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Facebook has blocked access to a number of accounts in Ukraine, some of which are associated with Russian state-backed media outlets. It’s also reviewing other governments’ requests to restrict access to these accounts in their countries. Nick Clegg (@nickclegg) February 27, 2022. “We

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

First time for a post debunking the "foiled sabotage / gas attack" and second time for a post debunking the "Ukrainian attack into Russia". We’re expeditiously reviewing these actions and have already proactively reinstated access to a number of affected accounts. I am back again after having been locked out twice in 24 hours.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

On Tuesday, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence suffered from a DDoS attack that prevented users from accessing its website, and two Ukrainian banks lost access to online banking services, according to statements from the government. Four hours later, the site still could not be accessed.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In an update from its Security Response Center , Microsoft says that hackers were able to “view source code in a number of source code repositories,” but that the hacked account granting such access didn’t have permission to modify any code or systems.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The breach targeted several US government agencies and is believed to have been carried out by Russian nation-state hackers. Though the post stops short of explicitly accusing Russia, the implication is very clear. We have not found evidence of access to production services or customer data.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“We have received requests from a number of Governments and the EU to take further steps in relation to Russian state controlled media,” Nick Clegg, the company’s newly-named president of global affairs , said Monday on Twitter. The change is the latest Meta has made in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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The Verge

APRIL 11, 2022

The US Department of the Treasury is exempting telecommunications services from ongoing sanctions against Russia. The move, confirmed late last week in an order , follows requests from advocacy groups who feared a disruption would cut off Russian activists’ access to the outside world.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Russia already partially blocked access to Facebook in the country , with the Russian government claiming the platform “restricted” four accounts associated with Russian media outlets.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

Yesterday, Meta blocked RT and Sputnik on both Instagram and Facebook after receiving requests to do so from a number of governments in the EU. YouTube had already stopped these outlets from generating revenue on its platform via advertising and restricted access to these channels in Ukraine itself. TikTok also banned the two channels.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The US Department of Commerce has ordered American companies to not sell their tech to NSO, citing reports that the group’s Pegasus spyware is used against journalists, government officials, activists, and more. Pegasus had made headlines before this year, too.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

BleepingComputer reported last week that Garmin had received a decryption key to access data encrypted by the virus, and that the initial ransom demand was for $10 million. Its statement did not say whether it had paid a ransom in response to the attack, but noted that no customer data was accessed, lost, or stolen.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

RT will be restricted in Ukraine due to “a government request”. Some of these channels — including RT — will also be restricted in Ukraine due to “a government request,” potentially in response to Ukraine digital minister Mykhailo Fedorov’s call for YouTube to block Russian propaganda on the platform.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

There was no immediate information as to who was behind the cyberattack, with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida telling reporters that his government would investigate whether Russia was involved. “It It is difficult to say whether this has anything to do with Russia before making thorough checks,” he said, according to Reuters. “It

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The Verge

MARCH 30, 2022

YouTube has already taken a number of actions against Russia. YouTube has already taken a number of actions against Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Bloomberg says it banned a YouTube channel associated with Russia’s Ministry of Defence as well.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Russia has previously been linked to DDoS attacks against Ukrainian government sites — but a full blackout would mean going further, using physical or cyber weaponry to disable telecommunications infrastructure at the network level, and silencing Ukrainians in the process.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2021

The US Department of Justice has charged a Latvian woman for her role in allegedly developing the Trickbot malware, which was responsible for infecting millions of computers, targeting schools, hospitals, public utilities, and governments, the agency said in a news release. and foreign beneficiary accounts,” the DOJ said.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The attacks focused on groups associated with Gavi, an international organization that promotes vaccine access and distribution. In November, Microsoft detected cyberattacks from nation-state actors in Russia and North Korea on companies with COVID-19 vaccines in various stages of clinical trials.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

For more than three months, Ukraine has been engulfed in the flames of a war with Russia. They have minimized risk while maintaining discipline and access to the talent pool. As the development of the IT sector is integral to the maintenance of the country’s GDP, the government fully supports it.

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The Verge

MARCH 14, 2022

The first strain, labeled HermeticWiper by researchers, was discovered on February 23rd , one day before Russia began the military invasion of Ukraine. Overall, large-scale cyberwarfare has so far failed to materialize in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but it’s possible that larger attacks are still in store. ESET research.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise blocked in their regions — driving an estimated 30% of all internet consumers globally to use a VPN at some point this year.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Morgan and her husband Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein were already granted bail last week by another judge, but the government got an emergency stay on the previous order, saying that the couple could potentially use millions of dollars worth of un-seized Bitcoin to flee the country.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

“The group frequently uses publicly available exploits to conduct widespread scanning and exploitation against vulnerable systems, likely in an effort to obtain authentication credentials to allow further access,” the advisory reads. The hackers are thought to keep a large store of login information.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Twitter tries to restore service in Russia : While some tech companies are working to cut ties with Russia after the country’s government invaded Ukraine, others are trying to keep their services up in the country. So, amid reports that Twitter is increasingly hard to access in Russia, the company said that it’s working on it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

But projects get abandoned and picked up by others who plant backdoors or malware, or, as seen recently since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a rise in “protestware,” in which open source software developers alter their code to wipe the contents of Russian computers in protest of the Kremlin’s incursion.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

That all changed this week after Russia invaded Ukraine, when its crowdfunding drew widespread attention, and its membership list ballooned to over 14,000 patrons, contributing a total of $436,966 a month. The Ukrainian government itself is also soliciting donations directly to help with its war effort.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

In a statement, Google defended its service fees, which it says “helps keep Android free,” and gives developers “the tools and global platform to access billions of consumers around the world.”. Some in the US government have even proposed legislation similar to what was passed by South Korea. Neither company is happy about it.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Don't freak out, but your gut is right: Your internet service provider (ISP) is tracking your every click to compile anonymous browsing logs they can potentially sell to advertising companies , or even cough up to government agencies in the interest of censorship. And yes, that includes the clicks that brought you to this article.)

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Tech Soup

JUNE 26, 2015

Ever since the Independent Living Movement began to emerge in the 1960s to empower people with disabilities, more and more of the world has become accessible. So far, Metro4All has apps for 14 cities in Russia and other countries in Europe. So far, their attempts to work with government transportation authorities have failed.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

The world of cybercrime is lucrative, but the arrests underscore that governments do find some of the malefactors trying to extort money from companies and individuals alike. Russia is blocking Google News : Search giant Google confirmed that “Russians are having problems accessing its news aggregator service, Google News, in the country.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today marks exactly one year since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal of Ukraine. This week, a majority of the members of the United Nations reiterated its demand that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine and called for a cessation of hostilities”.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Its mission is to offer products and services that help telecenters become self-sustainable while providing low-cost public access to computers and the Internet. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But one key component of its production — energy; electricity — is facing supply issues of its own in Europe at present, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia being a major but unreliable supplier of gas to Europe.).

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 5, 2025

Governments see in these dual-use AI systems a means to military dominance, stoking a bitter race to maximize AI capabilities. Voluntary industry pauses or attempts to exclude government involvement cannot change this reality. Executive Summary Rapid advances in AI are poised to reshape nearly every aspect of society.

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