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Cyber Daily: They Fled Ukraine to Keep Their Cyber Startup Alive. Now, They’re Hacking Back
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Hello. Crypto security can be a head-spinning business in normal conditions. Imagine trying to run such a startup while fleeing war and helping your workers relocate across a continent.
Ukrainian security firm Hacken's monthslong journey to Lisbon, Portugal, helped keep the startup alive as Russian bombs rained down near its previous office in Kyiv. I spoke to Hacken executives about the decision to leave their homes and to train the company's security expertise on Russian targets.
As one cyber defense researcher told me, “Within the Ukraine conflict, a lot of norms and rules for non-state behavior—or even company behavior—are gone now.”
Read below for more.
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David, Goliath, Meet Gafgyt and Mirai
60% of executives believe the Internet of Things will play an important role in digital business. Meet the two botnets that stand in their way, having accounted for more than half of DDoS attacks.
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A damaged Ukrainian flag lies on the ground near Kyiv on April 8. PHOTO: ALEXEY FURMAN/GETTY IMAGES
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Dozens of employees at Ukrainian cybersecurity startup Hacken fled their war-torn country and found refuge about 2,000 miles away in Portugal. They have managed to keep their business alive and are now supporting cyber operations against Russia.
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The company moved its main office from Kyiv to Lisbon, with stops in between, mirroring the drastic measures taken by millions of Ukrainians seeking to escape danger and preserve their livelihoods while the Kremlin wreaks havoc. For Hacken Chief Executive Dmytro Budorin, keeping his business going in the fast-growing market for crypto security meant urging his workers to flee before the bombs began to fall.
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“How will I feel, how will I look into the eyes of my employees, if we had the opportunity, had the money, understood that something can go wrong, and we didn’t do at least something to try to get everybody out?” he said.
Read the full story.
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PHOTO: MARY ALTAFFER
/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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U.K. man accused of hacking U.S. brokerage accounts. The man was allegedly part of a group that accessed servers at U.S. financial institutions between 2011 and 2018 and stole $5 million, according to a complaint unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn. Officials are seeking his extradition from the U.K., where he was arrested in August 2021. (InfoSecurity Magazine)
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Russia's RuTube restored. The video-streaming site was back online Wednesday after a cyber strike Monday disrupted service. Messages on RuTube's Telegram channel blamed the outage on an unspecified cyberattack intended to prevent Russians from seeing the country's Victory Day festivities. (NBC News)
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551
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Number of cyberattacks detected in Ukraine in the past two-and-a-half months, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team.
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PHOTO: TY B PHOTOS
/GEORGETOWN LAW
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A Democratic majority is poised to return to the Federal Trade Commission after the Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Alvaro Bedoya (pictured) to the agency's fifth seat. Vice President Kamala Harris broke a tie to confirm Mr. Bedoya by a partyline 51-50 vote, adding the privacy scholar to an agency that has promised to take a more aggressive approach to policing large technology firms and other businesses.
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Privacy experts expect Mr. Bedoya will play a key role in shaping how the FTC scrutinizes the ways companies collect, sell and share personal data that is key to much of the digital economy. Pushback from Republicans and Covid-related procedural hurdles had slowed his confirmation for months, stalling FTC Chair Lina Khan's broader agenda.
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Connecticut enacts data privacy law. The state is the fifth to limit how organizations handle consumer information, giving individuals the right to access and delete their data. They can also demand that businesses not sell their information under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, which goes into effect July 1, 2023. California, Colorado, Utah and Virginia also have data privacy laws. (Bloomberg Law)
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France's privacy watchdog considers penalty for Clearview AI. Marie-Laure Denis, head of data privacy regulator CNIL, said Wednesday she might start a formal process to fine the facial recognition company, which her office ordered late last year to stop amassing images of residents of France. Clearview AI's collection of online images and data violated the European Union's strict General Data Privacy Regulation, in part because the company failed to get the consent of individuals. Clearview denied that it breached the GDPR. (Reuters)
👉 Further reading: Clearview AI Agrees to Limit Sales of Facial Recognition Database. Firm won’t sell database access to commercial customers, but it can still license its algorithm.
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260,740
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Number of patients whose personal, medical, insurance and financial information was exposed in a May 2021 hack at New York-based Refuah Health Center.
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