The Russians learned about the deaths of dozens of Russian PMC fighters from Telegraph and the American media Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Until today, only telegram channels wrote about the major losses of the Russian private military company (PMC) of Wagner in a clash with the American military in Syria on February 7. Today, Bloomberg and The New York Times reported the death of “more than 200 mercenaries”, most of which are Russians.

Bloomberg was able to confirm reports of the deaths of more than 200 mercenaries, most of them Russians, as a result of shelling by the US-led coalition in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. The mercenaries died on February 7 during an unsuccessful attack on a US-controlled base and refinery in the "oil" province of Deir ez-Zor. Officially, the Pentagon reported 100 dead and 200-300 wounded.

The Bank of Russia will force microfinance organizations (MFOs) to reduce the maximum amount of short-term loans to 10,000 rubles, and their terms to 15 days. The maximum rate will be 1.5% per day, and from July 2019 - 1%. In this scenario, the maximum amount of overpayment on a payday loan will be 2-3 thousand rubles, taking into account all fines and penalties. Now such loans can be issued for up to 45 thousand rubles, the average rate is 2% per day, the maximum term is about 2 months.

Marvel Studios' new film "Avengers: Infinity War" will be released in Russian cinemas eight days later than planned - the premiere has been postponed from May 3 to May 11. The release of the Russian drama Sobibor is scheduled for May 3, the idea of ​​this picture belongs to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. He himself stated that he did not know about the transfer of the "Avengers". The Russian branch of the distributor, The Walt Disney, declined to comment on the transfer.

Alexey Navalny filed a lawsuit against Roskomnadzor in the Tagansky Court of Moscow. The demand is to remove the investigation about Oleg Deripaska and Sergei Prikhodko from the list of prohibited materials. On February 10, Navalny received a notification from Roskomnadzor that materials on his website were included in the register of prohibited information and should be removed from the site. The Roskomnadzor website mentions two materials on the navalny.com website.

Kaspersky Lab discovered a vulnerability in the Telegram client for Windows, and other versions of the messenger could also fall under it. Hackers have exploited the vulnerability since at least March 2017. It allowed remote access to the user's computer and was used for cryptocurrency mining. About a thousand people suffered from the actions of hackers, now Telegram developers have already fixed the problem.

The Moscow City Court extended until May 18 the detention of hacker Konstantin Kozlovsky, one of the main defendants in the case of the Lurk group . The court session took place today. Kozlovsky repeated in court that he was personally involved in hacking the servers of the National Committee of the US Democratic Party on the instructions of the FSB and other high-profile hacker attacks.

President Vladimir Putin canceled at least two upcoming public events due to a cold, Dmitry Peskov told Dozhd. According to him, Putin continues to work anyway, and “nothing serious” has happened. The President will not hold today’s meeting in the Kremlin on civilian microelectronics (it has been moved) and will not come to the Mentor forum tomorrow, although he planned to do so in early February. Participants will come to him in the Kremlin or Novo-Ogarevo.

Over the past year, the hacker group Cobalt, which the Central Bank calls the main threat to banks, attacked more than 240 banks. Of the 21 attempts, more than half were successful and brought the hackers more than 1 billion rubles. The hackers distributed the malicious code via phishing emails, loading the Cobalt Strike program, one of the most popular viruses, into each email.

Sergei Sobyanin refused the “modernization tax” for 2018. But next year it can become federal Photo: AGN "Moscow" In 2018, Moscow will not be charged from business tax on movable property - the so -called “modernization tax”, said Sergei Sobyanin yesterday. The tax, abolished in 2013, was restored in 2017 without any discussion with business, which caused outrage of large companies.