cybercrimes

Russia exploits spyware loopholes as global cyber oversight falls behind

Twenty-one of the world’s 31 largest makers of commercial cyberespionage tools operate outside international control mechanisms, according to a study presented in Ukraine’s parliament.

1 May, 03:30 PM

Russian hackers hit 170+ Ukraine prosecutor accounts in spy breach

Russian hackers breached more than 170 email accounts belonging to Ukrainian prosecutors and investigators in recent months, Reuters reported on April 15, citing data uncovered by cyber researchers.

15 April, 12:34 PM

Teen built app to steal $11,500 in parcels

A 16-year-old Kryvyi Rih resident created a smartphone app that allowed him to steal parcels from automated PO boxes, causing nearly UAH500,000 ($11,500) in losses. Dnipropetrovsk regional police said on April 9.

9 April, 09:12 PM

SBU deploys cyber centers nationwide to block Russian hacker attacks

Ukraine’s SBU Security Service has created regional cybersecurity support centers in all Oblasts to repel hacker attacks on local infrastructure, Volodymyr Karasteliov, head of the SBU Cybersecurity Department, said.

26 February, 06:12 PM

U.S. jails Ukrainian for selling Americans’ data to North Korea

A Ukrainian citizen has been sentenced in the United States on charges of selling the personal information of American citizens to North Korean IT specialists so they could obtain jobs in the U.S., the U.S. Department of Justice said on Feb. 19.

20 February, 03:43 PM

U.S. charges Ukrainian citizen over cybercrimes carried out on Moscow’s behalf

The U.S. Justice Department has filed two charges against Ukrainian national Victoria Dubranova, accusing her of carrying out cyberattacks against critical infrastructure in the interest of Russia.

11 December 2025, 03:06 AM

Cybercriminal linked to the Ryuk ransomware group has been extradited from Ukraine to the U.S.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has extradited to the United States a member of an international criminal group that used the Ryuk ransomware virus for cybercrime, as reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office on June 18.

18 June 2025, 07:16 PM

Russia hit by cybercrime wave as hackers steal billions in rubles

Losses from cyber fraud in 2024 surged to 200 billion rubles ($2.2 billion), up from 147 billion rubles ($1.6 billion) in 2023, Russia’s Interior Ministry reported on Feb. 19, quoted by The Moscow Times.

19 February 2025, 05:44 PM

Russia’s backdoor? Moscow tied to EU’s biometric border system – FT

European prosecutors are investigating how the Moscow office of an IT contractor helped build the European Union’s new electronic border system, which holds the bloc’s largest personal data database, Financial Times reported on Feb. 6.

6 February 2025, 04:32 PM

Russians erased one of Ukraine’s most confidential registries in latest cyberattack — Maluska

During a large-scale cyberattack on Ukrainian state registries on Dec. 19, Russians deleted one of the most confidential registries — the State Civil Status Acts Registry, Former Justice Minister Denys Maluska stated in a comment to NV’s sister publication Ukrainska Pravda on Dec. 22.

22 December 2024, 01:18 PM

Telegram cooperates with global authorities after Durov’s arrest

After the arrest of Pavel Durov and his release under judicial supervision, the social media platform Telegram has begun cooperating with law enforcement not only in France but also in other countries around the world, said Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, on Saturday, Sep. 21.

21 September 2024, 04:15 PM

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