US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap

Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Plus: Meta pays $1.4 million in a historic privacy settlement, Microsoft blames a cyberattack for a major Azure outage, and an artist creates a face recognition system to reveal your NYPD “coppelganger.”

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How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The code, the first of its kind, was used to sabotage a heating utility in Lviv at the coldest point in the year—what appears to be yet another innovation in Russia’s torment of Ukrainian civilians.

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