Global Internet Telemetry Measurement
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:42 am
ccording to the National Center for Computer Science and Information Technology (NKTSKI), technical support for the Sputnik browser ceased in 2022, and the domain name browser-sputnik.ru, which was accessed by copies of the program to receive updates, became available for sale due to the expiration of the registration period.
"Currently, the domain name browser-sputnik.ru belongs to the American company Global Internet Telemetry Measurement Collective, it is used for unknown purposes, and portugal whatsapp resource the web service associated with the domain name accepts requests for updates from Sputnik browsers installed on the computing equipment (CEE) of Russian citizens. Thus, there is a threat of introducing malicious modules into the Sputnik software with the aim of compromising the CEE," the NKTsKI said in an official statement. "The NKTsKI recommends that you refrain from using the Sputnik browser in your organizations and for personal purposes, and provides in its bulletin a list of domain names previously owned by OOO SputnikLab that may be used by intruders."
Collective LLC is registered in the US state of Delaware. According to the corporate registry of this state, the company was created on June 30, 2017.
According to the Who Is service, the company Global Internet Telemetry Measurement Collective became the owner of the browser-sputnik.ru domain just a month ago - on June 28, 2024. It carried out the corresponding registration of rights through the Russian domain name registrar RU-CENTER (JSC Regional Network Information Center). The same service shows that the name server - the server that stores all the necessary information about the browser-sputnik.ru domain - is located on the csof.net network. This network belongs to the Canadian hosting provider CubeSoft Communications Inc., which has been operating on the market for 20 years.
According to the Yandex.Radar service, as of mid-July 2024, the Sputnik browser does not even make it into the list of browsers with a 0.01% share of Russian users (MZBrowser and Amigo have this share). The top 5 browsers for all types of devices in the Russian Federation include Google Chrome (35.65%), Yandex.Browser (34.84%), Safari (13.03%), Android Browser (4.22%) and Opera (2.89%) - statistics for the week of July 8-14, 2024.
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"Currently, the domain name browser-sputnik.ru belongs to the American company Global Internet Telemetry Measurement Collective, it is used for unknown purposes, and portugal whatsapp resource the web service associated with the domain name accepts requests for updates from Sputnik browsers installed on the computing equipment (CEE) of Russian citizens. Thus, there is a threat of introducing malicious modules into the Sputnik software with the aim of compromising the CEE," the NKTsKI said in an official statement. "The NKTsKI recommends that you refrain from using the Sputnik browser in your organizations and for personal purposes, and provides in its bulletin a list of domain names previously owned by OOO SputnikLab that may be used by intruders."
Collective LLC is registered in the US state of Delaware. According to the corporate registry of this state, the company was created on June 30, 2017.
According to the Who Is service, the company Global Internet Telemetry Measurement Collective became the owner of the browser-sputnik.ru domain just a month ago - on June 28, 2024. It carried out the corresponding registration of rights through the Russian domain name registrar RU-CENTER (JSC Regional Network Information Center). The same service shows that the name server - the server that stores all the necessary information about the browser-sputnik.ru domain - is located on the csof.net network. This network belongs to the Canadian hosting provider CubeSoft Communications Inc., which has been operating on the market for 20 years.
According to the Yandex.Radar service, as of mid-July 2024, the Sputnik browser does not even make it into the list of browsers with a 0.01% share of Russian users (MZBrowser and Amigo have this share). The top 5 browsers for all types of devices in the Russian Federation include Google Chrome (35.65%), Yandex.Browser (34.84%), Safari (13.03%), Android Browser (4.22%) and Opera (2.89%) - statistics for the week of July 8-14, 2024.
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