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МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to 1,000%.
Russian Business Network. The Russian Business Network (commonly abbreviated as RBN) is a multi-faceted cybercrime organization, specializing in and in some cases monopolizing personal identity theft for resale. It is the originator of the PHP -based malware kit MPack and an alleged operator of the now defunct Storm botnet.
The Noorseekee (нурсики) scam is a multiple-round variant of the gold brick scam which has entered Russian urban legends from unverifiable incidents during the Afghanistan conflict. The scam consists of multiple "seller" and "buyer" rounds, the sellers and buyers both being Soviet officers in on the con.
Producing, storing or distributing (including spreading via the Internet, quoting in non-academic sources, and other forms of public information, considered to be a "distribution") the materials on the list is an offense in Russia. As of 16 January, 2023, this list includes 5,334 items. 106 items are already excluded from the list (although ...
In December 2009, Russian-based Internet provider Yota, with over 100,000 subscribers [9] blocked access to some Russian opposition Internet resources for its Moscow-based subscribers for a few days. This occurred after the chief prosecutor of St. Petersburg recommended that the company prevent access to extremist resources.
Russian Internet restriction bill (Russian: закон о блокировке экстремистских сайтов; Federal law of Russian Federation no. 139-FZ of 2012-07-28) [1] [2] is a law passed by the Russian State Duma in 2012 which replaced the procedure of shutting down telecom operators by prosecutors' orders with a blacklist of Internet sites containing alleged child ...
Genesis Market was a cybercrime -facilitation website noted for its easy-to-use interface. It enabled users to spoof over two million different victims, providing access to their bank accounts. The website was founded in 2017 and its publicly visible web operations were reportedly shut down by an international police operation in April 2023.
History of the Internet in Russia. The Russian internet (also known as the runet) is a part of the Internet with its main content in Russian. According to data from August 2019 and studies conducted by W3Techs, 6.5% of the 10 million most popular Internet sites in the world use Russian. [1] In 2013, according to these studies, the Russian ...