tag cyber attacks

Fed's Powell warns of digital currency's risks

EghtesadOnline: A top U.S. Federal Reserve official on Friday raised caution about central banks issuing digital currencies as they are vulnerable to cyber attacks and criminal activities along with privacy issues that still need to be addressed.
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Publish Date:04/March/2017 | 05:34

Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant: report

EghtesadOnline: A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday.
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Publish Date:22/December/2016 | 09:50

Obama orders review of 2016 election cyber attacks

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on Jan. 20, the White House said on Friday.
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Publish Date:10/December/2016 | 13:48

Germany sees rise in Russian propaganda, cyber attacks

EghtesadOnline: Germany's domestic intelligence agency on Thursday reported a striking increase in Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns aimed at destabilizing German society, and targeted cyber attacks against political parties.
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Publish Date:08/December/2016 | 21:50

Cybersecurity Comes to the Fore in Iran

EghtesadOnline: With the exponential growth of online services and application of modern technologies to all aspects of life, governments around the globe are facing new threats in the form of malware and cyber attacks . In order to outline the Iranian government’s activities in the field of cybersecurity, a conference was held at the ICT Ministry earlier this week.
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Publish Date:02/September/2018 | 07:59

Under pressure, Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cyber secrets

EghtesadOnline: Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found.
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Publish Date:23/June/2017 | 16:02

G20 to jointly fight bank sector hacking

EghtesadOnline: The world's biggest economies will pledge to jointly fight cyber attacks on the global banking system, one of the biggest coordinated efforts yet to protect lenders since an $81 million heist of the Bangladesh central bank's account last year.
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Publish Date:18/March/2017 | 16:28