Sentences with phrase «russian hackers»

The Russian hackers then targeted the contractor's home machine and copied the NSA files.

No one tricked Facebook users into giving away their passwords and then stole their data, like Russian hackers did when they broke into the email accounts of John Podesta and others through phishing emails.

Kaspersky Lab on Thursday shared more details from its investigation into reports claiming that Russian hackers stole data belonging to the...

First, it was for letting Russian hackers use the platform to influence the presidential election.

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It isn't Russian hackers with leet phishing skills and it isn't conniving con artists pawning spammy links.

Security firm Kaspersky Lab has shared preliminary results from its investigation following media reports that Russian hackers used its...

Russian hackers are reportedly targeting dozens of U.S. companies to steal users» credentials.

An article from WSJ alleged that Russian hackers used the Kaspersky software to steal files from the NSA employee's computer.

Top federal officials have concluded that Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 states and breached that of at least one, Illinois, during the last election cycle.

Those emails are believed to have been stolen by Russian hackers linked to the country's intelligence agencies.

As it emerged on Friday (16 March), the US has officially warned that Russian hackers have already been shown to have gained access to energy grids, nuclear power facilities and water facilities in the US.

The paper did not name the actors, but it was later revealed that this referred to a coordinated campaign to promote emails that were stolen from Democratic National Committee officials by Russian hackers and published by WikiLeaks.

By now, it's pretty clear that Russian hackers are responsible for breaches of the Democratic National Committee networks that occurred last summer and in April of this year — several forensic security firms have found evidence that traces the breach back to Russia.

«It's unacceptable that it took almost a year after the election to notify states that their elections systems were targeted, but I'm relieved that DHS has acted upon our numerous requests and is finally informing the top elections officials in all 21 affected states that Russian hackers tried to breach their systems in the run up to the 2016 election,» Warner said.

Well, just going by the 1.2 billion passwords those Russian hackers are sitting on, let's ballpark it at around 17 % (1.2 billion is about 17 % of the world's current population of over 7 billion).

Or that, just last week, we learned that Russian hackers had taken control of the email system used by none other than the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Data security has even become a campaign issue in 2016's particularly bizarre presidential race, as Russian hackers have reportedly accessed the private emails of scores of Democratic party officials.

Athina Karatzogizanni (2010) Blame It on the Russians: Tracking the Portrayal of Russian Hackers during Cyber Conflict Incidents, Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media, pg.

The Russian people, and that includes Russian hackers, love Donald Trump and hate Hilary Clinton.

From the article:... FOX News» Judge Napolitano charged that U.S. intelligence is behind the leaking of Hillary Clinton's emails to WikiLeaks, not Russian hackers.

If Jerry Lewis were running for President against Hilary Clinton, French hackers might very well have done the same thing as Russian hackers: attack Hilary's campaign and hope that Jerry wins.

And since that Wikileaks break - in was apparently carried out by officially encouraged (if not sanctioned) Russian hackers, the even bigger news is that Vladimir Putin is attempting to influence the American election by sabotaging the Democrats.

This is including Russian hackers, who published a huge database of UK government, scientific and university emails depicting the fixing of data to sell Global Warming, er Climate Change (as if it never changed on its own).

Fortunately, we have been saved by Russian hackers.

At first, the Russian media bragged about the Russian hackers.

You may have heard about it in the news: reports that Russian hackers have stolen more than a billion unique username and password combinations, and more than 500 million email addresses, grabbed from thousands of websites.

An ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with From Donald Trump to Russian hackers, these are the dangerous characters we've been watching online in 2017.

And a hacker known as Peace has now acquired the extensive database from Russian hackers, and is said to be selling its contents on the dark web for approximately $ 400.

RUSSIAN hackers have had a busy summer.

It's been a busy summer for Russian hackers.

Initial reports said Russian hackers were behind the Illinois accident.

During the brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008, «patriotic» Russian hackers disrupted communications in Georgia, but that was part of a larger pattern of attacks involving real military hardware.

Clinton and Stein acted in response to reports that Russian hackers might have tampered with electronic voting machines, while Trump appears to have been relying on bulletins from discredited conspiracy theory site Infowars.

Trump said that he was being sarcastic when he asked Russian hackers to go after Clinton and dig out her emails.

Security software used by local governments could be a backdoor for Russian hackers to gain entrance to sensitive information.

Forget Russian hackers — it looks as though trucks will now join backhoes as the great enemy of online communications.

Russian hackers successfully infiltrated the Democratic National Committee's computer network over the past year and accessed the political committee's opposition research file on Donald Trump.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New Castle said he fears Russian hackers may try to interfere in his re-election this year, according to multiple news reports.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have received new materials from the estate of Peter Smith, a GOP operative who reportedly led a campaign to obtain missing Hillary Clinton emails from Russian hackers during the 2016 presidential race.

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Even if something goes wrong it would be no surprise to hear of Russian hackers interfering with results to ensure the correct outcome.

It is widely suspected that Russian hackers breached the DNC and leaked emails that embarrassed the Clinton campaign.

However, and perhaps unrelatedly, some reports have suggested that Flynn was involved in yet another apparent effort to obtain Hillary Clinton's deleted emails from Russian hackers in 2016, undertaken by Peter Smith, a Republican consultant unconnected to the Trump campaign.

State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems.

Why this matters: Code governing control systems at industrial sites has already been the target of attacks, and US officials recently warned Russian hackers are probing for security holes in software controlling critical infrastructure like nuclear facilities and dams.

They began with a simple phishing email, similar to the one Russian hackers used in the attacks on the Democratic National Committee and other targets last year.

Harris's reports have changed that somewhat, telling us about Smith's outreach to Russian hackers — and, more importantly, Smith's claims that Flynn (who was close to Trump) may have known too.

Harris also described, apparently for the first time, US intelligence reports claiming Russian hackers discussed how to get hacked emails to Flynn through a third party.

Harris examined intelligence reports that described the efforts of Russian hackers to retrieve emails from Clinton's server and pass them along to Flynn, who would then share them with the Trump campaign.