Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate – Krebs on Security
krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/DarkSide, like a great many other malware strains, has a hard-coded do-not-install list of countries which are the principal members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) — former Soviet satellites that mostly have favorable relations with the Kremlin. The full exclusion list in DarkSide (published by Cybereason) is below:
Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint
edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?
What Russia looked like before 1917 … in color - The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/04/19/what-russia-looked-like-before-1914-in-color/Photographer and chemist Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii documented the Russian empire in full color images years before the 1917 revolution.