Russia says foreign spies plan cyberattack on banking system

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MOSCOW: Russia said it had uncovered a plot by foreign spy agencies to sow chaos in Russia's banking system via a coordinated wave of cyberattacks and fake social media reports about banks going bust. 

Russia's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), said in a statement that the servers to be used in the alleged cyberattack were located in the Netherlands, and were registered to a Ukrainian web hosting company called BlazingFast.