Published on: 2025-04-29 17:45:20
Image by Getty / Futursim Treatments Despite being backed by death-fearing billionaires, Donald Trump's administration has detained — and seeks to deport — an acclaimed anti-aging researcher. As the New York Times reports, 30-year-old Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born lab researcher at the Harvard Medical School, was detained at Boston's Logan Airport upon returning from a trip to France. Soon after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in his second attempt to annex its former Eastern Bloc neighbor,
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Only four spacecraft have ever returned images from Venus’ surface. The world next door doesn’t make it easy, with searing heat and crushing pressure that quickly destroy any lander. In 1975 and 1982, four of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes captured our only images of Venus’ surface. The Veneras, which mean “Venus” in Russian, scanned the surface back and forth to create panoramic images of their surroundings. They revealed yellow skies and cracked, desolate landscapes that were both alien a
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Harvard has made little comment about Ms. Petrova’s detention. A spokeswoman said this week that the university “is closely following the rapidly shifting immigration policy landscape and the implications for its international scholars and students,” and is “engaged with Ms. Petrova’s attorney on this matter.” Many in the research community there only learned about it two weeks ago, when Ms. Petrova’s co-workers started a GoFundMe appeal to help pay her legal expenses. The news sent shudders th
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Russia launched three secretive satellites into orbit earlier this year, and they appear to have recently released a mysterious object. The satellites’ unusual maneuvers have reignited concerns that Russia may be testing military capabilities in space—or even preparing for space warfare. The trio of satellites—designated Kosmos 2581, 2582, and 2583—launched on February 2 aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. Russia hasn’t declared the purpose of the satellites, but the secretive launch raised suspicio
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This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies. At the U.S. military garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany, they sealed a partnership that would bring America into the war far more intimately than previously known. At the U.S. military garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany, they sealed a partnership that would bring America into the war far more intimately than previously known. In the early days after Russia’s armies crossed into Ukraine
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The EU is getting further from its goal of weaning off Russian fossil fuels by 2027. Imports of Russian gas rose by 18 percent last year, a new analysis finds. “It is a scandal that the EU is still importing Russian gas,” said Pawel Czyzak, an analyst at energy think tank Ember and lead author of the new report. The spike in imports comes despite the fact that demand for gas stayed flat, according to the report. While the EU is aiming to disentangle itself from Russia, it still lacks a legally
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Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life. Researchers at the security firm Silent Push mapped a network of several dozen phishing domains that spoof the recruitment websites of Ukrainian paramilitary groups, as well as Ukrainian government intelligence sites. The
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A new report from Reuters claims that, under the Trump administration, a variety of U.S. national security operations designed to counter Russian aggression in Europe have been halted or slowed to a “standstill.” Those operations, many of which began under Biden, were aimed at countering Russian aggression on the West as retaliation for its support for Ukraine, the outlet writes. Since the war in Ukraine broke out in 2022, Russia has targeted western and European countries that have gone agains
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The war in Ukraine is one of robots and horses. It’s WW1-style trench warfare with modern killing machines. As Kyiv is perfecting the art of lethal drones on the ground, sea, and air, Moscow has turned to hauling supplies across the battlefield using donkeys and horses. Aerial drones have long been a critical component of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Both sides employ them to monitor the battlefield and kill the enemy. In the past few months, ground drones have entered the mix in a big way. A new r
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Russia's longstanding proposals for "information security" agreements may sound cooperative, but they conceal a Trojan horse - a push to legitimize censorship, silence dissent, and bind others to rules it won’t follow. International dialogue on cybersecurity and "information security", especially with Russia (given that it seems like they might have an issue with cybercriminals acting out of their backyard, but I'm sure that it's a coincidence) might seem like a chance for cooperation, but hist
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Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family. On March 7, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a
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Ekaterina Girnyk10:26, 08.03.25 The Donald Trump administration has cut off vital support for F-16 jamming capabilities. The United States, having decided to end its support for Ukraine, cannot simply turn off the Ukrainian Air Force’s U.S.-designed F-16 fighters . But the Trump administration has cut off vital support for their jamming capabilities, which could deprive the Ukrainian Air Force of a critical air countermeasure. However, as Forbes analyst David Ax writes , the Ukrainians are no
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Special Report By McKenzie Sadeghi and Isis Blachez A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the responses of AI models on topics in the news rather than by targeting human readers, NewsGuard has confirmed. By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremli
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Since the 2016 election of Donald Trump, there has been some debate over how effective Russian propaganda has been at swaying the opinions of American voters. It was well-documented back in those days that Russia employed large IT companies, most infamously the anodyne-sounding Internet Research Agency, with the sole remit of churning out divisive, pro-Russia content targeted at Americans, but quantifying the impact has always been imprecise. It surely has some impact, in the very least, at hard
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In Brief Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named “Pravda” is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI models. Pravda has flooded search results and web crawlers with pro-Russian falsehoods, publishing 3.6 million misleading artic
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday criminal charges against the administrators of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex for allegedly facilitating money laundering by criminal and terrorist organizations, as well as violating U.S. sanctions. The two administrators are Lithuanian national and Russian resident Aleksej Besciokov, 46, and Aleksandr Mira Serda, 40, a Russian national residing in the United Arab Emirates, who “knew that criminal proceeds were being laundered th
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The administrators of the Russian Garantex crypto-exchange have been charged in the United States with facilitating money laundering for criminal organizations and violating sanctions. 46-year-old Lithuanian national and Russian resident Aleksej Besciokov and 40-year-old Russian national and United Arab Emirates resident Aleksandr Mira Serda—who controlled Garantex between 2019 and 2025—are charged with money laundering conspiracy which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Bescioko
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In Brief Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named “Pravda” is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI models. Pravda has flooded search results and web crawlers with pro-Russian falsehoods, publishing 3.6 million misleading articl
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The U.S. Secret Service has seized the domain of the sanctioned Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex in collaboration with the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, the FBI, and Europol. Other law enforcement authorities involved in this action include the Dutch National Police, the German Federal Criminal Police Office, the Frankfurt General Prosecutor's Office, the Estonian National Criminal Police, and the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation. Earlier today, Garantex was also f
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The U.S. Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has taken down and seized the website of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with darknet markets and ransomware hackers. On Thursday, the official Garantex website was replaced with a notice saying the exchange’s domain has been seized by the Secret Service following a warrant by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. This is the latest act
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Hegseth orders pause in US cyber-offensive against Russia 1 day ago Share Save James FitzGerald BBC News Share Save Watch in full: The remarkable exchange between Zelensky, Vance and Trump US President Donald Trump's administration is pausing its offensive cyber operations against Russia, officials say, as a diplomatic push continues to end the war in Ukraine. The reasoning for the instruction has not been publicly stated, and it is not clear how long the halt might last. The defence departme
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says that media reports about it being directed to no longer follow or report on Russian cyber activity are untrue, and its mission remains unchanged. "CISA's mission is to defend against all cyber threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure, including from Russia," the US cyber agency posted to X. "There has been no change in our posture. Any reporting to the contrary is fake and undermines our national security." This comes after The Guard
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The United States has suspended its offensive cyber operations against Russia, according to reports, amid efforts by the Trump administration to grant Moscow concessions to end the war in Ukraine. The reported order to halt U.S.-launched hacking operations against Russia was authorized by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to The Record. The new guidance affects operations carried out by U.S. Cyber Command, a division of the Department of Defense focused on hacking and operations in
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A hot potato: Even before the invasion of Ukraine, the US had long considered Russia its main cybersecurity threat. But it appears that the designation no longer applies. The move comes as Trump attempts to normalize the relationship with Russia and President Putin, and follows a heated exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House. According to a US official familiar with the matter (via The Record), new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered US Cyber Command to
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It appears that the U.S. no longer considers Russia a significant cyber threat, according to multiple new reports on a drastic policy reversal that has taken hold under the new Trump administration. The cybersecurity outlet The Record originally reported that under Trump’s new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Cyber Command has been ordered to “stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” The outlet cites three anonymous sources who are familiar with the
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As scam compounds in Southeast Asia continue to drive massive campaigns targeting victims around the world, WIRED took a deeper look at how Elon Musk’s satellite internet service provider Starlink is keeping many of those compounds in Myanmar online. Meanwhile, FTC complaints obtained by WIRED allege that an “OpenAI” job scam used Telegram to recruit workers in Bangladesh for months before the fraudsters suddenly disappeared. WIRED published the inside story of Russian tech executive Vladislav
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Vladislav Klyushin was having, by any measure, an awful day. The judge in his case had brushed aside his lawyers’ arguments and his friends’ appeals for leniency. She handed down a tough sentence: nine more years in US federal prison, on top of an order to forfeit a fortune, $34 million. But if Klyushin was upset about the ruling, he didn’t show it. The then 42-year-old tech executive from Moscow seemed upbeat—quick with a smile on his pinchable cheeks and unerringly polite, just as he had been
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Russia's National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI) is warning organizations in the country's credit and financial sector about a breach at LANIT, a major Russian IT service and software provider. According to the bulletin, which was also published on the website of GosSOPKA (State System for Detection, Prevention, and Elimination of Consequences of Computer Attacks), the attack took place on February 21, 2025, and potentially impacted LLC LANTER and LLC LAN ATMservice, both p
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The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will expire in February 2026. While answering questions in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin dangled the possibility of extending it. The cost of the nuclear arms control treaty was subtle but clear. Putin wants everyone to ignore Kyiv’s “hysteria” over not being part of the negotiations for the end of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is an Obama-era treaty betwe
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Signal, as an encrypted messaging app and protocol, remains relatively secure. But Signal's growing popularity as a tool to circumvent surveillance has led agents affiliated with Russia to try to manipulate the app's users into surreptitiously linking their devices, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group. While Russia's continued invasion of Ukraine is likely driving the country's desire to work around Signal's encryption, "We anticipate the tactics and methods used to target Signal wi
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