Category: Russia’s War on Ukraine
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Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about…
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Drones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill
Drones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill A sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious ties to a Kremlin-connected oligarch whose Russian university builds drones for Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Nerdify homepage. The link between…
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Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M
Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services. The penalties for violating Canada’s anti money-laundering laws come ten months after KrebsOnSecurity noted that Cryptomus’s Vancouver street address was…
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Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions
Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But new findings show those sanctions have done…
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Proxy Services Feast on Ukraine’s IP Address Exodus
Proxy Services Feast on Ukraine’s IP Address Exodus Image: Mark Rademaker, via Shutterstock. Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of Ukrainian Internet address space are now in the hands of…
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Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs
Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many…
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When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger
When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life. The real website of the…