The cyber-attack was aimed at the country’s financial system
Dec 5, 2016 12:57 GMT · By Bogdan Popa ?Russia has announced that it managed to block a major cyber-attack aimed at the country’s financial system and launched by an unnamed foreign intelligence service.
No further details have been provided about this foreign service, but Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSS) explained in a statement that hackers were targeting the largest banks in the country.
The attack was supposed to start on December 5, FSS says, and also included an avalanche of social media posts and text messages falsely revealing “a crisis of credit and financial system in Russia,” as well as the revocation of licenses of several banks.
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