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Hacking for Dollars: North Korean Cybercrime
In mid-February 2021, the Department of Justice shared the content of what had been a sealed indictment charging three North Korean (DPRK) hacking “operatives” with a plethora of cybercrimes, including “cyber heists ...
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russian Hackers for Stealing $17 Million in Crypto Cash
This week, U.S. authorities sanctioned two Russian nationals for defrauding several cryptocurrency exchanges of a combined $17 million. The duo, who had several other accomplices, used phishing schemes to meet their goals, ...
Aventura Charged With Selling Chinese-Made Security Equipment
Aventura Technologies and seven of its executives have been charged with illegally importing Chinese-made security and surveillance equipment and claiming it to be made in the United States. The company, based in ...
Huawei Indicted, China Claims Foul
There’s no doubt Huawei is in crisis management mode, as the company continues to get pummeled by the United States and others. In January, we have seen two of Huawei’s subsidiaries charged ...
Best of 2018: Project Lakhta: Russian Meddling Gets Russians Indicted
As we close out 2018, we at Security Boulevard wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our weeklong series of the Best of ...
British Airways Suffers Customer Payment Card Breach
Hackers managed to breach and access the personal and financial details of British Airways customers who booked flights through the company’s website and mobile app in the past three weeks. Data from ...
U.S. Charges 3 Members of the Notorious FIN7 Cybercriminal Group
The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against three leading members of a cybercriminal group called FIN7 that hacked into more than 100 U.S. businesses. The three men are Ukrainian nationals and ...
Monday, July 16: Dtex, Insider Threat News: Privileged User Dents Apple Self-Driving Car Program; DOJ Says Russia Hacked Clinton Campaign, Issues Indictments Against Spies
Last week, Apple found out it had an insider threat active in its ranks. It was the type of insider that Dtex and the industry commonly refers to as a “leaver." In ...
U.S. Charges 9 Iranians with Data Theft in Cyberespionage Campaign
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicted nine Iranian nationals with cyberespionage for cyberattacks that resulted in the theft of more than 30TB of data from domestic and foreign universities, commercial ...
