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The Government of Bermuda believes that the recent cyberattack against its IT infrastructure was launched by Russian threat actors. This week a cyberattack hit the Government of Bermuda causing the interruption of internet/email and phone services. The attack impacted all the government departments.
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A Ukrainian government source told Reuters that Kyiv’s hackers are behind the cyberattack that disrupted operations at the Russian state media company VGTRK on Putin’s birthday. Early on Monday, the cyberattack took offline the website of VGTR along with its Rossiya-24 rolling 24-hours news channel.
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