Cybersecurity
Russia Says Foreign Spy Agencies Preparing Cyberattacks on Banks
- Attacks may start on Monday, Federal Security Service says
- Ukrainian-owned servers in Netherlands involved, agency says
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Russia accused foreign spy agencies of preparing cyberattacks in dozens of cities to try to undermine its banking system.
Attacks may begin on Monday with the goal “of destabilizing the financial system of the Russian Federation, including the activities of a number of major Russian banks,” the Federal Security Service, the successor body to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a website statement Friday.