Sentences with phrase «russian intelligence»

As of the summer of 2017, the U.S. Department of Defense was considering banning Kaspersky software from U.S. defense agencies and contractors, as rumors flew about the company's alleged links to Russian intelligence services.

Presumably, that is how the NSA learned that an unnamed NSA employee, whose story broke last week, had had his home computer snooped on by Russian intelligence after the Russians learned via Kaspersky AV software that the employee had NSA files on his home computer.

govinfosecurity.com - Evidence continues to mount that Russian intelligence created the «Guccifer 2.0» hacker online persona as a «plausible deniability» cover for

And while it contains a bunch of interesting allegations, the most serious claim is that Snowden is actively talking with Russian intelligence agencies.

Best Buy and Kaspersky Labs have called it quits, following reports that the popular antivirus company might be working closely with Russian intelligence.

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com - Guccifer 2.0, the notorious hacker who is alleged to have compromised the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and stolen opposition research on Donald Trump, has accidentally tipped his hand that he was working for Russian intelligence.

Guccifer 2.0 subsequently handed the files, some of which had been altered, to WikiLeaks for distribution, making the organization an apparent, perhaps unwitting, stooge for Russian intelligence.

Popular Moscow - based security firm Kaspersky has been accused of working with Russian intelligence, should you keep running it on your machine?

Instead of providing the hacking tools, the Russian produced unverified and possibly fabricated information involving Mr. Trump and others, including bank records, emails and purported Russian intelligence data.

The Internet Research Agency is a group known for its pro-Kremlin online propaganda campaigns, which U.S. intelligence agencies believe is funded by a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin with connections to the Russian intelligence community.

He also suggested that Russian intelligence agencies could have easily scooped up the company's vast library of data on American voters in advance of the 2016 elections in the United States, because Aleksandr Kogan, the scientist who collected it, made regular return trips to Russia.

The cybersecurity company FireEye identified what it called «warlists» of accounts linked to Russian intelligence that sometimes spewed messages like #WarAgainstDemocrats several times a minute.

That sheepish admission and others were about the only candid moments that the hearing produced, as it swung from Russian intelligence operations to Islamic extremists and even to a predictably useless interlude from Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who squandered his time with a distracting line of questioning that accused the companies of partisanship.

A Canadian citizen has pleaded guilty to aiding Russian intelligence officers in a 2014 hack of Yahoo that exposed as many as 500 million accounts.

«We now know that Russian intelligence officers and state - sponsored hackers were responsible for highly complex and sophisticated attacks on Yahoo's systems.»

In September, the Department of Homeland Security issued a ban on Kaspersky products, coupled with a statement expressing its concerns regarding «the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks.»

The US has accused Russia of a cyber-assault on its energy grid, and has stepped up sanctions on Russian intelligence for its interference...

One unanswered question in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether there was any collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia is whether Russia's Internet Research Agency or Russian intelligence used data Cambridge Analytica obtained from Facebook or other sources to help target and time messages during the campaign that were anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Trump and politically and racially divisive.

Whether it's alternative facts, fake news, Trump's battle with judges and courts or Trump's senior staff having surreptitious dealings with Russian intelligence agents prior to him becoming president (which the Republican - controlled Senate and House refuse to investigate), I think the world is seeing a slow - motion train wreck unfold on a daily basis.

A Russian intelligence source claimed the FSB had new information which could cast light on who was behind the elaborate operation.

«[Russian intelligence chief Yevgeni Primakov] mentioned the well known articles printed a few years ago in our central newspapers about AIDS supposedly originating from secret Pentagon laboratories.

Her leering uncle, a Russian intelligence higher - up, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, essentially pimps her out after a career - ending injury.

On her first assignment, she is given the target of a first - tour CIA agent who is tasked with delving deep in to Russian intelligence.

Dominika is trained and sent to Budapest to uncover an American mole in the Russian intelligence service.

She's pressed into service as a «sparrow», a train seductress, and is sent to target Nathanial Nash (Edgerton, if he takes the role), a young CIA officer who has been assigned to investigate the Russian intelligence system.

A secretive Russian intelligence agency exploits Dominika's dire situation, pressing her into service.

After the success of the three Hunger Games sequels, Lawrence has served up a pitch dark film about the brutal, unforgiving, and cold world of Russian Intelligence.

Enter her uncle, Ivan Dimitrevich Egorova (Matthias Schoenaerts, The Drop), a high - ranking Russian intelligence officer who recruits her for what is supposed to be a one - time mission.

Dominika is pressed into service to approach and weaken an American agent whose contact with a mole inside the Russian intelligence services has made her uncle's life difficult, but as one might expect in a film like this, she catches feelings for her prey, played with icy determination by Joel Edgerton, and things get complicated quickly.

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to «Sparrow School» a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use [Read More] her body as a weapon.

Joel Edgerton as the CIA man who had to flee Russia after he was nearly caught meeting a high - level Russian intelligence officer feeding the Americans secrets, slips into his role effortlessly.

Based on Jason Matthews» 2013 novel of the same name, Red Sparrow tells the story of Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence), who is recruited to the deadly «Sparrow School.»

Synopsis: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to «Sparrow School,» a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon.

This is the skill set of a «Sparrow,» a sect of the Russian intelligence community with personnel intensely trained to entice marks and peck them — until death, if necessary — to obtain nation - debilitating info.

In the movie, sparrows are shown to be a certain branch of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) that trains women to be «honey traps» who use their sexuality to seduce and compromise foreign assets, like say, a CIA agent.

Red Sparrow (2018) Ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jenifer Lawrence) is recruited to «Sparrow School,» a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon.

She plays a lowly CIA secretary who must go undercover as a tourist to infiltrate a Russian intelligence ring.

She plays a lowly CIA secretary who must go undercover as a brash American tourist to infiltrate a Russian intelligence ring, with Jason Statham as her long - suffering handler.

Disgraced and soon dead, Control is convinced that Prideaux was betrayed by a mole at the highest level of British Intelligence, a ««Gerald»» whom agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) had uncovered while engaged in a tryst with the ridiculously beautiful Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), a Russian intelligence officer's wife he's now obsessed with smuggling out of Russia.

Red Sparrow's deceptively simple knot of intrigue — it involves a hunt for a mole in the Russian intelligence apparatus — holds our attention, even though the film stretches to an almost ungainly 140 minutes.

Her mission is to uncover the identity of a mole who's almost certainly a high - ranking Russian intelligence officer.

Facing eviction and with no more healthcare for her sick mother (Joely Richardson), she is blackmailed by her Uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts) into working for him in Russian intelligence.

As Dominika tries to out the mole among Russian intelligence, she also tries to get a read on Nash.

Eventually, Dominika «graduates» and is assigned to ensnare Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton), a CIA agent who's in league with a high - ranking Russian intelligence source.

She travels to Vienna, where she strolls past him in a bathing suit, the first step in ascertaining the name of a mole way up in the ranks of Russian intelligence.

Enter not - so - kindly Uncle Vanya (Matthais Schoenaerts), a high - ranking Russian intelligence officer who offers to shepherd her through what amounts to a «spy school» run by the nameless Matron (Charlotte Rampling).

This takes the antagonistic pair to Vienna, where they meet with Russian intelligence agent Vertikoff (who has an oddly Prussian accent as played by the wonderful actor Armin Mueller - Stahl).

2018-04-08 17:53 Russian intelligence agents attempted to spy on President Emmanuel Macron's election campaign earlier this year by creating phony Facebook personas.

Russian intelligence agents attempted to spy on President Emmanuel Macron's election campaign earlier this year by creating phony Facebook personas.

It noted that «[i] n the past year, it has been established once again that the Russian intelligence services are running agents in the Netherlands with the aim of acquiring political and scientific information.»