![]() ![]() Reports by The Intercept, in partnership with a Dutch and Belgian newspaper, tied an earlier version of Regin to a hack at Belgian telecom firm Belgacom in 2013 and said British spy agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the NSA were responsible. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. The Regin malware was identified as a Five Eyes tool in 2014 following revelations by former U.S. The hackers covertly maintained access to Yandex for at least several weeks without being detected, they said. ![]() The hack of Yandex’s research and development unit was intended for espionage purposes rather than to disrupt or steal intellectual property, the sources said. ![]() Such information could help a spy agency impersonate a Yandex user and access their private messages. The sources who described the attack to Reuters said the hackers appeared to be searching for technical information that could explain how Yandex authenticates user accounts. It also operates in Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey. The company, widely known as “Russia’s Google” for its array of online services from internet search to email and taxi reservations, says it has more than 108 million monthly users in Russia. “Yandex security team’s response ensured that no user data was compromised by the attack.” It was fully neutralized before any damage was done,” he said. “This particular attack was detected at a very early stage by the Yandex security team. Yandex spokesman Ilya Grabovsky acknowledged the incident in a statement to Reuters, but declined to provide further details. The breach took place between October and November 2018. It could not be determined which of the five countries was behind the attack on Yandex, said sources in Russia and elsewhere, three of whom had direct knowledge of the hack. Western cyberattacks against Russia are seldom acknowledged or spoken about in public. Intelligence agencies in those countries declined to comment. The malware, called Regin, is known to be used by the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance of the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the sources said. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Russian internet group Yandex is pictured at the company's headquarter in Moscow, Russia October 4, 2018. ![]()
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