An Estonian man was sentenced today to more than five years in a U.S. prison for his role in at least 13 ransomware attacks that caused losses of approximately...
Read moreA Closer Look at the LAPSUS$ Data Extortion Group
March 23 2022Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both disclosed this week breaches involving LAPSUS$, a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to...
Read moreA Closer Look at the LAPSUS$ Data Extortion Group
March 23 2022Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both disclosed this week breaches involving LAPSUS$, a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to...
Read more‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud
March 22 2022Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book "Spam Nation," was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud....
Read moreLawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook
March 15 2022Aleksei Burkov, a cybercriminal who long operated two of Russia's most exclusive underground hacking forums, was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities. The Russian government fought Burkov's extradition to...
Read moreLawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook
March 15 2022Aleksei Burkov, a cybercriminal who long operated two of Russia's most exclusive underground hacking forums, was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities. The Russian government fought Burkov's extradition to...
Read moreConti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime
March 8 2022Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable ransomware gang in operation today. The...
Read moreConti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry
March 4 2022Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Part II explored what...
Read moreConti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office
March 2 2022Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat logs from Conti, one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation...
Read moreConti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part I: Evasion
March 1 2022A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti, an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses...
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