All the headlines from our Russia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2018 // Russia’s military intelligence service has led a campaign of “indiscriminate and reckless cyber attacks targeting political institutions, businesses, media and sport,” the U.K.’s National Cyber...
Oct 2 2018 // For users, Facebook’s revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next?For the owners of the affected accounts, and of another 40 million...
Aug 31 2018 // Allianz announced that it has named Bart Schlatmann as CEO of its European direct business, effective Sept. 1.Schlatmann joins Allianz from Russia’s Sberbank, where he served as chief transformation officer,...
Aug 30 2018 // A new trade route for energy supplies is opening up north of the Arctic Circle as some of the warmest temperatures on record shrink ice caps that used to lock ships out of the area.This year is likely to rank among the top...
Jul 24 2018 // Paul Nakasone, U.S. cyber commander and director of the National Security Agency, confirmed that he’s created a special task force to address Russian threats in cyberspace.Russia has “great capabilities on...
Jul 23 2018 // British businessman Arron Banks has denied an allegation made by a former business partner that he approached Russians about investing in his diamond mines, and that the money raised went instead to his campaign to leave...
Jul 16 2018 // Warning lights about cyber threats to U.S. national security are “blinking red” and the digital attempts to undermine America are occurring daily, not just at election time, the nation’s top intelligence...
Jul 14 2018 // President Donald Trump said on Friday the United States and Britain could secure a “great” post-Brexit trade deal, lavishing praise on Prime Minister Theresa May and contradicting his own withering assessment...
Jul 9 2018 // Google said Thursday that its document writing tool Google Documents was secure even as Russian internet users discovered scores of files that appeared to be intended for private use.The Russian internet company Yandex...
Jun 27 2018 // Hackers from Russia are infecting Ukrainian companies with malicious software to create “back doors” for a large, coordinated attack, Ukraine’s cyber police chief told Reuters on Tuesday. The hackers are...
Jun 15 2018 // Dozens of industrial plants in Russia have turned to the state’s reinsurance company for cover after an extension of U.S. sanctions made it difficult to get reinsurance elsewhere, the head of that firm told...
Jun 14 2018 // The risk of terror attacks and damage from hooligans has pushed up premiums for businesses and players buying insurance for the soccer World Cup in Russia compared to the previous event in Brazil, brokers and insurers...
Jun 13 2018 // Arron Banks, one of the self-described “bad boys of Brexit,” said he has no business interests in Russia and there was no evidence of a conspiracy connected to Britain’s vote to leave the European...
May 29 2018 // The FBI warned on Friday that Russian computer hackers had compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic.The U.S. law enforcement agency urged...
May 23 2018 // Hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries, some of the world’s biggest cyber security firms warned on Wednesday, in a campaign that Ukraine said was preparation for a...
May 17 2018 // Russian lawmakers on Thursday voted to postpone the second reading of a bill being discussed in the lower house of parliament that would make it a crime to comply with Western sanctions on Russia.The lower house said it...
May 2 2018 // Italy’s Octo Telematics, a global provider of telematics for the auto insurance industry, confirmed the completion of the purchase of 20 percent of the company’s shares by its Chairman Sir John Peace and Chief...
Apr 24 2018 // In this age of social media leaks and foreign election hacking, the ability to transmit sensitive personal information securely across borders is more valuable than ever.Finland and Estonia, two of Europe’s most...
Apr 17 2018 // The United States and Britain on Monday accused Russia of launching cyber attacks on computer routers, firewalls and other networking equipment used by government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators...
Apr 13 2018 // Italy’s Octo Telematics announced that its chairman and chief executive have signed a binding agreement to purchase 20 percent of Octo’s shares from Russian company Renova Holdings.This share purchase will...