The special counsel investigating possible collusion between President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia has asked White House officials to preserve any records of a meeting last year between the president's eldest son and a Russian lawyer, according to a source with knowledge of ...
Moscow lawyer who met Trump Jr. had Russian spy agency as client
The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among her clients for years, Russian court documents seen by Reuters show. The documents show that the lawyer, Natalia ...
Russian envoy overheard saying he discussed campaign with Sessions: report
Russia's ambassador to Washington was overheard by U.S. spy agencies telling his bosses that he had discussed campaign-related matters, including issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing current and former U.S. officials. A U.S. ...
Trump campaign in June paid law office now representing son $50,000
Donald Trump's campaign paid $50,000 to the law office now representing Donald Trump Jr. a little more than a week before news surfaced of an unreported meeting with a Russian attorney that has prompted new accusations of collusion. The payment to the law offices of ...
Trump associates frustrated and concerned by latest crisis, after Donald Jr. tweets emails
Fresh off one foreign trip and preparing for another, Donald Trump was enjoying a period of relative calm — until the White House was rocked by a fresh controversy over contacts between the president's campaign and Russia. For Trump — who has been swept up ...
U.S. warns businesses of hacking campaign against nuclear, energy firms
The U.S. government has warned firms about a hacking campaign targeting the nuclear and energy sectors, the latest event to highlight the power industry's vulnerability to cyberattacks. Since at least May, hackers used tainted phishing emails to "harvest credentials" so they could gain access to ...
Australia creates military unit to expand hacking attacks on Islamic State, other enemies
Australia has created its first military cyberdivision, a government minister said on Friday, seeking to expand hacking attacks on foreign enemies including Islamic State. "This is a result of the changing character of contemporary conflict," Dan Tehan, the minister assisting the prime minister on cybersecurity, ...
Ransomware the go-to hack for cybercriminals amid bitcoin rally, glut of stolen data
A recent outbreak of ransomware attacks, from the WannaCry worm in May to Tuesday's infection of thousands of computer systems around the globe, shows that digital stickups are becoming the go-to hack for cybercriminals, fueled by powerful leaked U.S. government exploits and the rise ...
A major global cyber attack on Tuesday disrupted computers at Russia's biggest oil company, Ukrainian banks and multinational firms with a virus similar to the ransomware that last month infected more than 300,000 computers. The rapidly spreading cyberextortion campaign underscored growing concerns that businesses have ...
Under pressure, Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cybersecrets
Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyberattacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found. Russian ...
Britain's Parliament was hit by a "sustained and determined" cyberattack on Saturday designed to identify weak email passwords, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country's health service. The House of Commons said it was working with the National Cyber ...
Russian breach of 39 states threatens future U.S. elections
Russia's cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump's election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported. In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyberintruders tried ...
