UPDATE: Russian cbank aware of financial cyberattacks plans – source
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MOSCOW/KIEV, Dec 2 (PRIME) -- The central bank is well aware of massive cyberattacks that are being prepared to destabilize Russia’s financial system, and is cooperating with law enforcement agencies to prevent them, a source close to the central bank said on Friday.
“The central bank knows and is working jointly (with the Federal Security Service),” the source said.
The security service said on its Web site that foreign special services are preparing large-scale cyberattacks against the Russian financial system, including its biggest banks, starting from December 5.
Control centers behind the attacks are located in the Netherlands and belong to Ukrainian company BlazingFast.
The Federal Security Service is taking measures to neutralize threats for the economic and information security.
BlazingFast confirmed that it has clients in the Netherlands. “We’ve mostly foreign clients, just a few Russian or Ukrainian clients…Yes, we have a site in the Netherlands. Since you’ve called, and the information has appeared somewhere, we’re going to start checking the case quickly,” a spokesperson for the Ukrainian company said.
“We’ve lots of clients, and some of them could be involved in illegal operations. As soon as a request appears, we deal with it. We cooperate with the authorities, but we have not received any inquiries on the matter.”
BlazingFast is a hosting company that runs no illegal activities, its spokesperson said.
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