Articles for December 2016

Russia proposes 10 Year in Prison Sentence for Hackers and Malware Authors

The Russian government has introduced a draft bill that proposes prison sentences as punishment for hackers and cyber criminals creating malicious software used in targeting critical Russian infrastructure, even if they have no part in actual cyber attacks.

The bill, published on the Russian government’s website on Wednesday, proposes amendments to the Russian Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code with a new article titled, “Illegal influence upon the critical informational infrastructure of the Russian Federation.”

The article introduces punishment for many malicious acts, including the “creation and distribution of programs or information, which can be used for the destruction, blocking or copying data from the Russian systems.”

Source: Russia proposes 10 Year in Prison Sentence for Hackers and Malware Authors

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Avalanche botnet network struck down in global operation | ZDNet

And as you cut off one head… another will take its place.

After four years of investigation, Europol and other agencies have moved against the prominent Avalanche botnet platform which acted as a hub for malware campaigns worldwide.

Europol publicly disclosed the operation on Thursday, made possible through partnerships with the FBI, the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the German Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden Eurojust, and technology firms including Shadowserver and Symantec.

Law enforcement agencies moved November 30 in a takedown which disrupted the infrastructure of criminal operations in over 30 countries and US states across 60 registries worldwide.

Five arrests were made and 37 premises searched, resulting in the seizure of 39 servers. However, a total of 221 servers were taken offline through abuse notices.

Source: Avalanche botnet network struck down in global operation | ZDNet

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