The return of Russian hackers. Now they are suspected of hacking uber

At least 800 Britons became victims of data leakage from Uber. They wrote off money for fake trips in Russia.

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In the news about the leakage in 2016, 57 million Uber users, a hidden company, at first nothing reminded of hackers from Russia, where all major cyber attacks are now debited. Today, this omission was fixed - the British The Times reported the suspicions of Russian hackers.

• At least 800 Uber users in Britain and the United States reported this year on Twitter about hacking their accounts on Uber, after which money was written off for traveling in Moscow and St. Petersburg, where users have never been. In reality, the number of victims was at least a few thousand, says The Times.
• The screenshots of the tweets of British users and SMS, which they came from Russia, are quoted by The Guardian.
• The amounts reported by the British were written off in rubles and were approximately the same-4-5 thousand rubles. The phone number tied to the account changed to the Russian one. Users themselves believe that their accounts were sold in a darknet - a closed network segment, which is often used for criminal purposes.
• Uber refutes the involvement of Russian hackers to hacking, as well as the fact that the company's users generally suffered any financial damage. After hacking, the company paid the hackers for non -disclosure of the data of $ 100 thousand, but she received no guarantees that they were deleted.

What am I to me?

Paradox: if hackers were really Russian, this means that Uber’s Russian clients are likely not threatened with financial losses. One of the mainrules of serious cybercriminals in Russia - “Do not work on RU”: for hacking abroad, Russian law enforcement agencies rarely issue, and for damage caused at home, it may threaten a prison term.

MONEY

The Central Bank is worse than Kiberatak

Do you think only Uber loses user data and tries to hide it from everyone? In Russia, this happens all the time. Since the beginning of the year, a fifth of banks, which became victims of successful cyber attacks, hid it from the Central Bank from a notorious fear that banking supervision would come to them together with cybersecurity. Who is the winnings? Of course, hackers. And both the Central Bank and banks lose, and, as always, customers.

The FSB will give a crab

The FSB this year began to somehow openly intervene in the business historian. In October, the special service set a record for the speed of knocking out the debt-the founder of Don-Stroya Maxim Blazhko just a day after the detention gave an offshore related to Rosneft, the Shchuka shopping center, which he has not paid since 2011. Now the FSB invited Vladimir Putin to change the rules of the game in the crab catching market - instead of distributing quotas (almost 25 billion rubles a year) by historical principle to sell them at auctions. Among the new players who are interested in the crab business are the Rotenberg brothers.

PRACTICE

Of all the batteries

This time, Elon Musk seemed to keep his word-in March he promised that in 100 days he could mount the largest 100-megavat lithium battery in the world in the world, which should save the country from electricity shutdowns. The contract was signed at the end of September, and the installation of the battery will end in the coming days, after which Tesla will begin to test it. However, we do not get tired of reminding: when it comes to the most fantastic piece projects, Musk can handle the best, but it is difficult to cope with mass production.

What do you know about artificial intelligence

We quite often write about artificial intelligence here, and it seems that we understand it well - but Vedomosti made a rather complicated test about AI, and we could not answer all questions correctly. It is assumed that the test will determine whether artificial intelligence needs your business - but, in the end, we understand that in a few years everything will be there, so it is worth testing our knowledge in the issue.

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Life is more expensive than power

Practical advice for dictators: if the military overthrow you, for some time you can even try to hold on to power, but only timely care will allow you to agree on immunity. At least, the former President Zimbabwe, 93-year-old Robert Mugaba, has already succeeded . It is important, the security guarantees were received by his unpopular 52-year-old wife Grace, due to the intervention of which Mugaba had problems in politics.

Whether Mugaba will remain in Zimbabwe is unknown; To begin with, it will fly for treatment in Singapore. His predecessors from other African countries preferred to return to their homeland-and, for example, the Uganda cannibal (in the literal sense of the word), go Amina in the late 1990s could easily be found in the queue in a meat shop in Saudi Gidda, where he was appointed lifelong pension.

Peter Mironenko, The Bell