Cybersecurity
Russian News Agency Interfax Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Hacker Attack
- Interfax, other media hit by badrabbit virus, Group-IB says
- Russian banks also attacked, unaffected so far, company says
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Russia’s central bank said it will investigate a computer virus attack that disrupted services on Interfax, the country’s main independent newswire that’s a major carrier of corporate market disclosures.
The bank will work on mechanisms to reduce the likelihood of service disruptions in public disclosure wires, the regulator said in a website statement on Wednesday. No resources of financial organizations were compromised in the attack by the badrabbit virus, it said.