The Verge

MARCH 9, 2022

Sony Interactive Entertainment, the arm of Sony that manages its popular PlayStation console, is halting all software and hardware shipments in Russia because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. We have suspended all software and hardware shipments, the launch of Gran Turismo 7 , and operations of the PlayStation Store in Russia.”

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Arianespace was on track to launch two Galileo satellites into orbit using a Soyuz rocket in April, however, that will likely be pushed back due to growing tensions among nations. The US and Europe have put a slew of sanctions on Russia since its invasion into Ukraine, and have also moved to exclude some Russian banks from SWIFT. “I

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The Verge

MARCH 20, 2022

They were warmly received by their fellow German, Russian, and American crewmembers aboard the ISS despite the tensions between Russia and other nations. Russia says it will bring Vande Hei back as planned , despite reports indicating otherwise. One of those crewmembers is American astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

Wikimedia Russia called the claims “fundamentally impossible” to evaluate and urged the government not to block access to the article — which would effectively require blocking access to all of Wikipedia. The government outright blocked the site in 2015 over a cannabis-related article, but the blackout was short-lived.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 19, 2014

million people in Russia using Russian Cyrillic as the official alphabet for their national language. The need for these localized scripts is clearly indicated in numbers below: 143.5 497 million people speaking Hindi as a first language and 120 million as a second language.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While the conflict grows in scale and intensity, organizations far beyond the apparatus of military and government are being drawn in — including ransomware groups active in Russia and Ukraine. The Conti #ransomware operation sides with Russia and threatens attacks on critical infrastructure.

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Wired

MARCH 20, 2025

Chinese ecommerce giants like Temu and AliExpress sell drone accessories like those used by soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The warning came during a United Nations working group meeting on reducing space threats last week. Konstantin Vorontsov, a member of the Russian delegation, said that the country "would like to underline an extremely dangerous trend that goes beyond the harmless use of outer space technologies and has become apparent.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Russia was not invited to take part, while Ukraine did not attend. Co-hosted by the Netherlands and South Korea last week at The Hague, the REAIM conference was attended by representatives from over 60 countries, including China. Ministers, government delegates, think tanks, and industry/civil organizations participated in the talks.

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TechSpot

MARCH 20, 2024

billion contract signed in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an intelligence agency that manages spy satellites. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that SpaceX's Starshield business unit was building a spy network under a $1.8 Read Entire Article

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Video game developers from inside Ukraine and surrounding nations are rallying to support the country as Russia invades.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Commerce Department writes that the export of cybersecurity items to countries of national security or weapons of mass destruction concern will require a license from the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Countries subject to a US arms embargo and those deemed by the US to have a.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 9, 2020

"Recently, we were attacked by a highly sophisticated threat actor, one whose discipline, operational security, and techniques lead us to believe it was a state-sponsored attack," Kevin Mandia, FireEye's CEO, wrote in a press release. They used a novel combination of techniques not witnessed by us or our partners in.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have been sort of anchors for oDesk on the technical side,” Cooper explained.

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Wired

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages. Signal has pushed out new safeguards.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The cyberattack against SolarWinds, an ongoing espionage campaign already blamed on Russia , claimed the U.S. Today, I disclosed publicly that @Malwarebytes had been targeted by the same nation state actor that attacked SolarWinds. THE BIG PICTURE. Google says SolarWinds exposure “limited,” more breaches confirmed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The push to fund Ukraine’s war-torn nation-state with crypto is turning out to be An Actual Thing. Given what a minute fraction of the company’s aggregate GMV we’re talking about here, this is not Earth-shaking news, but does matter for the larger set of DTC startups out there considering physical retail. Startups/VC.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

SpaceX has supplied over 25,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine and maintained them since the war began, helping keep the nation's critical infrastructure and its citizens online as Russia continues its assault. Read Entire Article

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Digital Trends

MAY 15, 2021

China has become just the third nation to land a spacecraft on the surface of Mars, joining the U.S. and Russia in that achievement.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2022

Apple has informed NSPK [Russia’s National Payment Card System] that it is suspending support of ‘Mir’ cards in the payment service Apple Pay,” a translated announcement on Mir’s site reads. Since March 24, uploading new ‘Mir’ cards to the service has been unavailable.”

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

While this publicly available data isn’t usually meaningful (it’s not a surprise that more people are posting from downtown Seattle than the nearby national forest), in a wartime scenario where Russia may want to track evacuations or citizen movements, it’s probably for the best that the feature is turned off.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

The decision comes as Ukraine has received cryptocurrency donations worth tens of millions of dollars from individuals and groups hoping to help the country’s war effort against Russia. Cryptocurrency is playing a significant role in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

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TechSpot

MARCH 8, 2023

There are six foreign adversary nations named in the bill: China, Russia, Read Entire Article

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

While Microsoft points to “a very sophisticated nation-state actor” as the culprit, the US government and cybersecurity officials have implicated Russia as the architects of the overall SolarWinds attack.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2022

million followers of @YourAnonNews on Twitter, this video was cited as the moment that Anonymous “declared war on Russia.” A lot of internet bystanders were getting ready to make trouble for Russia — and they were going to use the mantle of Anonymous to do it. Uploaded to YouTube and shared to the 7.8

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The Verge

APRIL 5, 2022

The market primarily caters to criminals in Russia and surrounding nations. Our actions send a message today to criminals that you cannot hide on the darknet or their forums, and you cannot hide in Russia or anywhere else in the world,” Secretary of Treasury Janet L. Yellen said. “In

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It’s not yet clear who’s behind this campaign, but the researchers suspect a nation-state actor rather than a private individual or group. Advanced insight into the purchase and movement of a vaccine that can impact life and the global economy is likely a high-value and high-priority nation-state target.”.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) denounced the attacks in an advisory issued Thursday. Hackers from Russian intelligence services are targeting organizations that are involved in COVID-19 vaccine development, according to US, UK, and Canadian authorities.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Although the blog post, authored by FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, does not say who is responsible, it says that the attacking nation has “top-tier offensive capabilities.” The Wall Street Journal reports that Russia is a suspect, specifically its foreign-intelligence service known as the SVR.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

To be clear, Ecosia is also continuing to fund tree-planting with search ads profits (an activity it’s best known for) — but the Berlin-based search engine told us it’s now making an “ongoing commitment” to green energy investment as a result of the energy crunch triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. .

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

Slate published a piece describing how American cross-stitchers have been “devastated” by Etsy’s recent suspension of Russian storefronts, including cross-stitch patterns shops that are — to the surprise of some crafters — heavily concentrated in Russia.

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The Verge

MARCH 19, 2022

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has confirmed it was the subject of a ransomware attack that took place last October, according to a report from Gizmodo. Grief, which is said to be associated with well-known Russia-based hacking group Evil Corp , threatened to release more documents if its payment threshold wasn’t met.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Shares of Chinese technology companies are selling off at home and abroad this week as the nation’s ties to Russia add to investor uncertainty at the expense of China’s tech industry. Let’s dive into recent data and see what we can find out.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Akin to how it takes nation-states a little time to get sanctions up and running, tech companies don’t roll out responses to geopolitical changes in a moment. But today we have notes on what tech companies are doing in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. PST, subscribe here. Startups/VC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Funding sources for tech startups in Ukraine have gone off a cliff this year, with investors (and their LPs) wary of taking on the risk of backing potentially promising ideas and people who have stayed in the country amid the sustained, persistent and increasingly ugly onslaught from Russia. billion the year before.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The US Department of Commerce announced a new rule to prevent the sale of hacking tools to China and Russia, The Washington Post reports. If a US company wants to export spyware to a government that poses a national security concern, the company would need a license. The rule is complex and purposefully so.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

South Korea’s National Assembly passed the bill on Tuesday. Russia requires that gadgets come pre-installed with apps made by Russian developers, and Australia is looking into regulating services like Apple Pay and Google Pay. Neither company is happy about it. Neither company is happy about it.

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