In December 2021, two months before the invasion of Ukraine, the new CEO of Russia’s second-most-popular social media network sat next to an immaculate Christmas tree and introduced himself to staff ...

The companies boycotting Facebook in an effort to fight hate speech have been advertising for years on VK.com, “a Russian social media platform that bans gay-rights groups and is known as a haven for ...

With its Facebook-grade social networking functionality, 394 million users around the globe, 1 billion likes generated daily and 5 billion messages sent each day, why isn’t more of the ...

While western social media such as Facebook and Instagram are globally the most popular, Russians still prefer to use the homegrown social network, Vkontakte, or VK for short. VK remains the most ...

A hacker has obtained 171 million user accounts associated with social networking giant, VK.com. The stolen database contains full names, email addresses and plain-text passwords, and in many cases ...

Three major record labels - Sony Music Russia, Universal Music Russia and Warner Music UK - were in court on Monday, suing Russian social media site VKontakte (VK) for "large-scale" music piracy.

Android apps were caught stealing passwords from VK - a Russian social networking website iStock More than 80 malicious Android apps were caught lurking on Google's official Play Store that were ...