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The New Face of Cybercrime: When the Criminal Isn’t the Hacker
As cybercrime morphs into highly organized crime, recent DOJ prosecutions target negotiators, access brokers, and insiders—shifting the battlefield from patching technical exploits to dismantling the entire criminal supply chain ...
US Pig Butchering Victims ‘Will’ Get Refunds — Feds Seize $225M Cryptocurrency
DoJ, FBI, USSS yoinked USDT: Pretty girls plus investment fraud equals forfeiture recovery (eventually) ...
FBI Botnet Takedown: 911 S5 With 19 Million Infected Devices
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) recently announced the successful takedown of what is likely the largest botnet ever recorded. This network, known as 911 S5, involved 19 million device botnet disruption ...
Qakbot Takedown: A Brief Victory in the Fight Against Resilient Malware
Prior botnet takedowns like Emotet and TrickBot have shown that sophisticated malware operations, like Qakbot, can often rebuild infrastructure and return from disruptions in new forms The post Qakbot Takedown: A Brief ...
U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections
The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved ...
‘Hive’ Russian Ransomware Gang Shut Down by FBI, DoJ, Europol, Bundeskriminalamt, et al
Law enforcement agencies from several countries got together and took down the site. They also worked to decrypt victims’ data ...
Chinese Huawei ‘Spies’ Charged — FBI is Mad as Hell
The Chinese government sent two spies to extract information about the U.S. case against Huawei. But they didn’t expect their contact to be a double agent ...
The new DOJ Law Enforcement Crypto Reports (TL;DR)
TL;DR? Good news! I read them for you! On 15SEP2022, the Department of Justice released their report "The Role of Law Enforcement in Detecting, Investigating, and Prosecuting Criminal Activity Related to Digital Assets" ...
DoJ, FBI, IRS Make Empty Boast: SSNDOB ‘Seized’
Feds are gloating over their “seizure” of the notorious SSNDOB marketplace, which traded in stolen personal information. But the action seems too little, too late ...
