AJ Vicens

AJ was a senior reporter for CyberScoop covering nation-state threats and cybercrime. He was previously a reporter at Mother Jones.

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People march with Iranian flags and with signs during a rally marking Al-Quds Day (Jerusalem), a commemorative day held annually on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan by an initiative started by late Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in Tehran on April 14, 2023. (Photo by AFP / Getty Images)

Microsoft says Iranian hackers combine influence ops with hacking for maximum impact

Geopolitics

Rescuers rest during search and rescue operations near a destroyed building of Kupiansk’s local museum on April 25, 2023. (Oleksandra Novosel/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Pro-Russian hacktivism isn’t real, top Ukrainian cyber official says

Cybercrime

A Belgian truck driver loads his truck with goods to aid Ukrainian refugees at the municipal logistic center on March 10, 2022, in Cascais, Portugal. (Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)

NSA sees ‘significant’ Russian intel gathering on European, U.S. supply chain entities

Geopolitics

People react during a ceremony for slain Ukrainian volunteers in Independence Square in Kyiv on March 7, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI aiding Ukraine in collection of digital and physical war crime evidence

Geopolitics

U.S.Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Justice Department on April 06, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

To combat cybercrime, US law enforcement increasingly prioritizes disruption

Cybercrime

A North Korean flag flutters in the propaganda village of Gijungdong as seen from South Korea’s Taesungdong freedom village, in the Demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas in Paju on September 30, 2019. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

Modified X_Trader software led to compromise of two critical infrastructure targets, Symantec says

Threats

The North Korean flag flies over its embassy in Beijing. (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)

3CX supply chain attack was the result of a previous supply chain attack, Mandiant says

Threats

A woman passes by a mural depicting the logo of Russia’s mercenary group Wagner in Belgrade on January 20, 2023. (Photo by OLIVER BUNIC/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia’s digital warriors adapt to support the war effort in Ukraine, Google threat researchers say

Threats

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Ransomware group behind Oakland attack strengthens capabilities with new tools, researchers say

Cybercrime