Russia’s war on Ukraine making life difficult for Russian cybercriminals
Flashpoint says international sanctions and a string of law enforcement actions are causing trouble for criminals to cash out.
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Getty Images Money Bitdefender releases REvil decryptor as ransomware gang shows signs of return
Bitdefender and other cyber firms are seeing signs of a REvil rebirth.
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(Via Europol, April, 12, 2022) Government Justice Department seizes major cybercrime spot RaidForums
RaidForums boasted at one point of having close to 10 billion pieces of PII for sale, making it one of the biggest destinations for cybercriminals.
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(Getty Images) Financial Four years after FBI shut it down, AlphaBay dark web marketplace claims it’s back in business
The new-look AlphaBay will have to work to regain trust in the criminal underworld.
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The logo of X, formerly known as Twitter, is displayed on a smart phone screen. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Privacy Former Twitter executives: Privacy and security practices deteriorated under Musk
Former employees say Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter may have caused the company to violate a consent order with the FTC.
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(Getty Images) Geopolitics Threat intel firms suggest ransomware gang ‘BlackMatter’ has ties to DarkSide, REvil hackers
BlackMatter could be a successor organization, or something more fluid.
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National Security Agency (NSA) Director and U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Paul Nakasone testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 10, 2022 (Photo by: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Privacy NSA director urges Congress to renew controversial intelligence authority
NSA Director Paul Nakasone said Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has saved lives as he pressed for its renewal.
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Facebook’s Meta logo. (Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images) Technology Powerful Meta large language model widely available online
On Friday, a link to download LLaMA was posted to 4chan and quickly proliferated across the internet.
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Greek god and goddess vector illustration series, Heracles or Hercules fighting the Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna, Second Labor of Heracles Geopolitics How Hydra, a Russian dark net market, made more than $1 billion in 2020
Hydra has remained resilient where others have fallen to law enforcement operations.
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Participant hold their laptops in front of an illuminated wall at the annual Chaos Computer Club (CCC) computer hackers’ congress, called 29C3, on December 28, 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by Patrick Lux/Getty Images) Threats Ransomware gangs are starting more drama on cybercrime forums, upending ‘honor among thieves’ conventions
Researchers say online disputes between hackers can be a treasure trove of intelligence.