Russian passport details exposed by database leak

A leaked database thought to belong to the Russian airline Aeroflot has left the details of more than a million people accessible to the public putting them in danger of cybercrime, a report from the Cybernews research team has discovered. The team made the discovery during a routine investigation using open-source intelligence (OSINT) methods, coming…

9 in 10 cyber attacks targeting Russia or Ukraine

According to recent findings by the Atlas VPN team, 89% of cyberattacks worldwide are targeting Russia and Ukraine.   In particular, a significant amount of cyberattacks are directed at financial services businesses with Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks making up 90% of all cyberattacks.   Cybercriminals launched 70% of cyberattacks on Russia. A total of 5 billion attacks…

Tech Digest daily roundup: Russia limits Facebook access

Russia has limited access to Facebook over the platform's stance on the accounts of several Moscow-backed news outlets amid the invasion of Ukraine. Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor accused the network of "censorship" and violating "the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens". Facebook said it had refused to stop fact-checking and labelling content from state-owned news…

Huawei to develop 5G with Russian firm MTS

Huawei Technologies has signed an agreement with Russian telecom company MTS to develop next-generation 5G networks. The deal was signed on Wednesday in Moscow, as Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin looked on. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in Moscow (Maxim Shipenkov/AP) China has been championing Huawei, the world’s biggest telecoms…