Sources: Yandex seeks Putin’s assent for restructuring, including selling its Russian business and spinning off key global projects in edtech and other sectors (Max Seddon/Financial Times)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Yandex says a former employee is responsible for the leak of a 44.7GB source code repository on a hacking forum and that the company’s systems were not hacked  —  A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Yandex says a former employee is responsible for the leak of a 44.7GB source code repository on a hacking forum and that the company’s systems were not hacked  —  A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.

New York Times:
An investigation, based on ~160K documents from Roskomnadzor, details Russia’s vast surveillance and censorship apparatus, which helps Putin maintain his regime  —  Four days into the war in Ukraine, Russia’s expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus was already hard at work.

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Research: Russia reactivates its troll and bot networks on Gab, Parler, and other platforms, seeking to influence the US midterms and erode support for Ukraine  —  Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.

Aaron Gordon / VICE:
Yandex confirms hackers created a traffic jam in Moscow on September 1 by ordering dozens of taxis from Yandex Taxi to converge on the same location  —  Attackers attempted to disrupt ride-hailing app service on Thursday, the company confirmed.  —  Hackers created a traffic jam in Moscow …

Politico:
A look at Russia’s scramble to access semiconductors, transformers, and other high-tech parts for weapons, many of which are sanctioned, for the Ukraine war  —  It’s the microchips that look set to get Vladimir Putin in the end.  Six months into its invasion of Ukraine …