Yandex uses software that lets developers create apps for devices which run on Apple and Google systems. That software collects user data sent to servers in Russia, which experts say could be used to track people. Yandex has faced scrutiny amid allegations of censorship following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for…
A data processing services company that claimed to be located in Washington, D.C. is actually a Russian firm based in Novosibirsk, Siberia, according to recent Reuters intel. Pushwoosh also claims to have more than 80,000 clients – including consumer firms such as Coca-Cola and McDonalds, but also the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) and ominously…
/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/HRE4R5QXJ5PDVA7FTUXZJRMFGE.jpg "EXCLUSIVE Russian software disguised as American finds its way into U.S. Army, CDC apps")
LONDON/WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple (AAPL.O) and Google’s (GOOGL.O) online stores contain computer code developed by a technology company, Pushwoosh, that presents itself as based in the United States, but is actually Russian, Reuters has found. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States’ main agency…
Volunteers work at a field turned into defense center where stoves, bulletproof vests, sandbags, barricades and anti-tank Czech hedgehogs are being produced for Ukrainian soldiers in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on March 3, 2022. Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Ukraine, under a full-fledged invasion from Russia, is home to 44 million people, more than a million of…
The Biden administration ramped up restrictions on exporting certain technologies to Russia and Belarus on Wednesday, actions it said would degrade the ability to sustain a military campaign against Ukraine. The new controls will prevent American companies from exporting certain sensitive items that would support defense, aerospace and maritime industries in Belarus, which the administration…
