Technology
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has finally disclosed the names of the Crimea-based hackers who have been attacking Ukraine on Russia’s orders for more than seven years. The hacker group Armagedon, a
Nov. 5, 2021
The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind turbin
Nov. 4, 2021
Ukraine-founded startup Let’s Enhance attracted $3 million to develop a tool that automatically improves the quality of digital images, the company announced on Oct. 27. Called Claid, this cloud servi
Oct. 29, 2021
Ukraine-founded stock photo website Depositphotos has become a part of publicly-traded U.S. holding Cimpress, currently valued at $2.3 billion. Cimpress’ subsidiary VistaPrint, which creates business
Oct. 29, 2021
New York – Nobelium, the Russian hacking group responsible for the cyberattacks on SolarWinds, is still at it. Read more here.
Oct. 25, 2021
Ukrainian moderators who clean up harmful content on Facebook are among the lowest paid employees in the company, according to an internal letter shared by Facebook’s content moderators with the U.S.
Oct. 25, 2021
Facebook is suing a Ukrainian national suspected of scraping and selling information from 178 million users on the platform in 2018-2019, according to American publication Insider. According to the co
Oct. 23, 2021
In the old days, scouting for footballers used to be an arduous process involving constant journeys to remote provincial stadiums. But an Italian company, Wyscout, has spearheaded a digital revolutio
Oct. 10, 2021
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Oct. 5 vetoed a bill legalizing cryptocurrency in Ukraine and sent it back to parliament for changes. The bill that passed the Verkhovna Rada in September says that the
Oct. 6, 2021
Police officers from Ukraine, the U.S. and France detained a 25-year-old hacker in Kyiv on Sept. 28 to stop a massive cybercrime that caused more than $150 million in damage worldwide. The suspect all
Oct. 5, 2021
Belarus-founded tech firm PandaDoc, which moved to Ukraine in 2020 during the protests against dictator Alexander Lukashenko, has become a ‘unicorn,’ bringing its total valuation to $1 billion, accord
Sep. 24, 2021
Tech company GitLab, founded in Ukraine, will soon go public on the U.S. stock exchange Nasdaq. Founded by Ukrainian tech entrepreneur Dmytro Zaporozhets and the Dutch-born Sid Sijbrandij in 2014, Git
Sep. 22, 2021
A draft law legalizing and regulating cryptocurrency and other virtual assets like tokens in Ukraine has passed the parliament in the second reading on Sept. 8. A total of 276 Ukrainian lawmakers vote
Sep. 8, 2021
Ukraine’s cyberpolice on Sept. 6 busted a smuggling ring that imported fake Apple smartphones, headphones, tablets, laptops and chargers from China before selling them as genuine products to unsuspect
Sep. 7, 2021
Cryptocurrency is hugely popular in Ukraine. Last year, Ukrainians earned about $400 million from bitcoin investment, making local crypto investors the tenth richest in the world. Ukrainian tech start
Sep. 1, 2021
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) detained four Kyiv residents suspected of operating a bot farm to spread disinformation about the Crimea Platform summit on social media. The suspects used 15,000 fake
Aug. 30, 2021