T-Mobile Data Breach
August 19 2021
It’s a big one:
As first reported by Motherboard on Sunday, someone on the dark web claims to have obtained the data of 100 million from T-Mobile’s servers...
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Disrupting Ransomware by Disrupting Bitcoin
July 26 2021
Ransomware isn’t new; the idea dates back to 1986 with the “Brain” computer virus. Now, it’s become the criminal business model of the internet for two reasons. The...
Read moreThe DarkSide Ransomware Gang
June 2 2021
The New York Times has a long story on the DarkSide ransomware gang.
A glimpse into DarkSide’s secret communications in the months leading up to the Colonial Pipeline attack...
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Identifying the Person Behind Bitcoin Fog
May 3 2021
The person behind the Bitcoin Fog was identified and arrested. Bitcoin Fog was an anonymization service: for a fee, it mixed a bunch of people’s bitcoins up so...
Read moreIdentifying People Through Lack of Cell Phone Use
April 29 2021In this entertaining story of French serial criminal Rédoine Faïd and his jailbreaking ways, there’s this bit about cell phone surveillance: After Faïd’s helicopter breakout, 3,000 police officers took part...
Read moreOn North Korea’s Cyberattack Capabilities
April 22 2021Excellent New Yorker article on North Korea’s offensive cyber capabilities.
Read moreRansomware Profitability
February 10 2021Analyzing cryptocurrency data, a research group has estimated a lower-bound on 2020 ransomware revenue: $350 million, four times more than in 2019. Based on the company’s data, among last year’s...
Read moreZodiac Killer Cipher Solved
December 16 2020
The SF Chronicle is reporting (more details here), and the FBI is confirming, that a Melbourne mathematician and team has decrypted the 1969 message sent by the...
Read moreHow the FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Operates
September 16 2020The Grugq has written an excellent essay on how the Russian cybercriminal gang FIN7 operates. An excerpt:
The secret of FIN7’s success is their operational art of cyber crime....
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Cybercrime in the Age of COVID-19
August 4 2020The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre has a series of papers on cybercrime during the coronavirus pandemic. EDITED TO ADD (8/12): Interpol report....
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