Day: October 25, 2017

    Russia is set to test its biggest ever nuclear missile which is powerful enough to destroy the UK, Texas or France with a single strike. The so-called Satan 2 intercontinental ballistic missile could deliver about a dozen nuclear warheads of 40 megatons - 2,000 times as powerful as the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. President Vladimir Putin's Defence Ministry plans to test two RS-28 Sarmat super nukes at the remote Plesetsk Cosmodrome before the end of the year, it was reported. The 100-ton weapons which could enter service as early as 2019 will make the bombs dropped on Japan look like popguns, experts have said. Russia claims the missiles can beat any defences as it seeks to replace its arsenal of SS-18 Satan weapons. The Satan 2 missile was displa...

    A strain of ransomware known as Bad Rabbit is believed to be behind the trouble, and has spread to Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Germany. Cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab, which is monitoring the malware, has compared it to the WannaCry and Petya attacks that caused so much chaos earlier this year. According to the company, the majority of victims are located in Russia, and the ransomware appears to have infected devices through the hacked websites of Russian media organisations. Interfax and Fontanka in Russia have both been hit by a cyber attack, as have Odessa Airport and the Kiev Metro in Ukraine. Based on our investigation, this is a targeted attack against corporate networks, using methods similar to those used in the ExPetr attack, Kaspersky Lab has said. However, we...