Officials took down three U.S.-registered domains that distributed copyrighted content and received tens of millions of visits a year.

The actions impaired some of IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure, but not all of it. The effort underscores the back-and-forth struggle of taking out pieces of cybercriminals’ vast and…

It stems from how the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions, the official said.

Attackers have exploited the critical defect to reconfigure firewall settings and create unauthorized accounts with privileged access to multiple versions of the vendor’s security products.

Nation-state groups are consistently exploiting the defect to target victims in military, government and technology for espionage.

Cybercrime groups, including one that identifies as ShinyHunters, are targeting single sign-on services to gain access to victim networks and steal data.

Ianis Antropenko, a Russian national living in California, admitted to committing ransomware attacks against at least 50 victims. He faces up to 25 years in jail.

Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov, a 35-year-old Russian national, is accused of forming and running the ransomware outfit since 2022. He’s now on Europol and Interpol’s most-wanted lists.

Ransomware negotiators dish on being in a ‘moral gray zone,’ unrestricted by accountability or industrywide rules of engagement.

Authorities linked the 40-year-old to multiple crimes by tracing the email address he used for a cybercrime forum to the same account he used to apply for…