Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENERussia has begun testing a new system capable of cutting off access to the global internet, with early reports indicating that even virtual private networks, known as VPNs, are unable to circumvent these restrictions. This marks a significant escalation in the country's efforts to establish what it calls a "sovereign internet."According to a recent report by NetBlocks, The Russian government already trialed its capacity to shut down internet access in Dagestan. Local news outlet Chernovik reported that the block lasted 24 hours and extended to Chechnya and Ingushetiaℹ️ Note: Metrics show the disruption and restoration of connectivity in Dagestan, #Russia, following what telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor has described as a trial of its capacity to disable access to the foreign internet in a specific region; incident duration ~24 hours pic.twitter.com/7iYtDcVtSG — NetBlocks (@netblocks) December 7, 2024"Many sites, including ours, the Russian ones, don’t load. Nothing works!" one of the readers of Chernovik who lived in Makhachkala reported. The local news shared that services like YouTube, Telegram, and even taxi apps stopped working."Regarding the ongoing Roskomnadzor exercises to develop scenarios for disabling access to the foreign segment of the internet, today, [Dec

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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New research from threat data and intelligence leader Flashpoint and ERP cybersecurity and compliance leader Onapsis reveals evidence that SAP business-critical applications are increasingly top of mind and valuable for cybercriminals. The report shows a significant rise in threat actor groups targeting SAP vulnerabilities, and aids defenders with actionable intelligence to ensure their mission-critical SAP applications are protected from these threats. 2023 was a critical inflection point for the SAP application threat landscape with new highs in threat activity and increased interest from prolific and well-established threat actor groups and state-sponsored cyberespionage groups. All SAP vulnerabilities observed within this report were patched by SAP several years ago, with SAP having made the relevant SAP Security Notes promptly available for customers. This indicates that threat actors continue to target and exploit organizations with weak cybersecurity governance for SAP applications, mostly taking advantage of known, unpatched SAP vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. This is of special relevance as customers migrate SAP applications to the cloud, further increasing their exposure to a growing number of threat actors