Russian News Agency Interfax Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Hacker Attack

Russia’s central bank said it will investigate a computer virus attack that disrupted services on Interfax, the country’s main independent newswire that’s a major carrier of corporate market disclosures. The bank will work on mechanisms to reduce the likelihood of service disruptions in public disclosure wires, the regulator said in a website statement on Wednesday. No resources of financial organizations were compromised in the attack by the badrabbit virus, it said.-- More....