Ukrainian drone strikes have damaged Russian data centers belonging to Yandex, Sberbank, VKontakte and the Ministry of Finance, prompting Russian firms to explore underground facilities. State telecom Rostelcom is in talks with mining company Norilsk about relocating centers below ground, and a regional governor has proposed building them in open-pit coal mines disguised with parks above. Putin also signed a decree on November 2 requiring operators to reserve 10 percent of capacity for emergency state use, and authorized potential reliance on foreign data centers.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-11-03
Authorities in both Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert mobile applications were compromised by cyberattacks. In Ukraine, affected users received false alerts warning of an imminent nuclear threat, while Russian officials separately confirmed their systems were also targeted.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-11-02
Apple and Microsoft were added on October 2 to Russia's 'organizers of information dissemination' registry maintained by regulator Roskomnadzor, Bloomberg reported. The designation requires them to store Russian users' messages, calls and video communications for three years and hand that data to security services upon request, or face fines and potential service restrictions. Google Meet, WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Cloudflare and Blizzard are already on the same list.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-29
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Elon Musk a 'real genius' and said Russia is in close contact with Musk on satellite-related issues. Putin described the contact as part of broader coordination with American partners, without detailing the scope or nature of the cooperation.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-28
About 50 U.S. Marines from Camp Lejeune are joining NATO's Enhanced Vigilance Activity Baltic Sentry operation, providing surveillance and reconnaissance support to protect undersea internet cables and gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. The unit, drawn from the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion and related Marine groups, will supply drones and sensor data to NATO allies including Finland, while European nations lead the operation.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-28
Ukrainian drones struck a government data center near Gorodets, about 230 miles from Moscow, that reportedly processes data for Russia's Federal Tax Service. The facility is one of two geo-distributed centers handling tax records, and Russian media cited by Data Center Dynamics warned the damage could affect state information systems. The Finance Ministry reportedly operates two other data centers, in Dubna and Yerzovka.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-25
Ukraine's military intelligence agency GUR disclosed details of a Russian cruise missile called Filin, first deployed around September-October, that reportedly reaches speeds of 500mph and a range of 745 miles. GUR says the missile has a carbon and fiberglass fuselage with 3D-printed components, Russian-made engines, and electronic parts sourced from Western and allied companies, making it cheaper to produce than the roughly $2 million Kh-101 cruise missile.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-24
US State Department official Brian Hardesty told a UN committee that Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite maneuvered dangerously close to a US-registered commercial satellite in low-Earth orbit last weekend, calling the behavior consistent with an on-orbit weapons operation. Russian diplomat Konstantin Vorontsov dismissed the US and European concerns as unfounded, describing all Russian space activity, including Kosmos 2612's, as purely peaceful.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-22
Satellite trackers report that Russia's Cosmos 2612 spacecraft maneuvered close to and shadowed a U.S.-operated commercial radar-imaging satellite over several days. The targeted satellite is believed to support Ukrainian military operations. Analysts describe the behavior as unprecedented for this type of close-proximity tracking in orbit.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-20
Ukraine's 92nd Separate Assault Brigade released video it says shows the first evacuation of a wounded infantryman by aerial drone, after landmines and enemy drone activity ruled out ground vehicles. The soldier was strapped into a heavy-lift hexacopter, originally built as a bomber by a Ukrainian manufacturer, and flown to safety at low altitude. The brigade says the soldier is now undergoing treatment and rehabilitation.
nbcnews.com
· 2026-10-19
Ukraine has carried out drone attacks over the past week targeting several of Yandex's major data centers, disrupting Russian consumer apps including shopping and taxi services in major cities. A Cloudflare report found that while the attacks caused real service outages, Russian bot-driven disinformation traffic was not eliminated but instead shifted to other hosting providers.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-16
On October 8 the United Kingdom imposed economic sanctions on Cryptomus, a cryptocurrency payment processor previously known as Certa Payments and Xeltox Enterprises, accusing it of processing payments benefiting the Russian government and its banks. The sanctions freeze Cryptomus assets held at UK banks and prohibit British firms from doing business with it, and also hit related services VexPay, TokenSpot and Tsunami Payments.
krebsonsecurity.com
· 2026-10-14
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