law enforcement
LockBit Hacker Sentenced To 4 Years Jail Plus Fined $860K
Recent reports about legal proceedings, a 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national, Mikhail Vasiliev, has been handed a sentence of almost four years in Canadian prison. Vasiliev’s involvement in the global ransomware scheme known as ...
LockBit Ransomware Resurgence After Law Enforcement Takedown
LockBit ransomware, which has also been known as “ABCD,” has resurfaced on the dark web despite being dealt with strictly by the global law enforcement task force. This development of LockBit ransomware ...
LockBit Ransomware Bounty: US Offers $15 Million In Reward
In a landscape where cyber threats loom large, the hunt for cybercriminals intensifies. Today, we’re turning the spotlight on LockBit ransomware attacks and the unprecedented $15 million bounty offered by the U.S ...
Alert: Coyote Trojan Strike Compromises 61 Brazilian Banks
Financial cyberattacks pose a significant threat to the stability of global economies and the security of financial institutions. In a recent cybersecurity development, a staggering 61 banks in Brazil have fallen victim ...
iOS 17 NameDrop Debunking, Real World QR Code Attacks, Impact of Ransomware on Hospitals
In episode 307, Tom and Scott debunk misinformation circulating about the iOS 17 NameDrop feature by law enforcement and others on social media. Next, they discuss the potential risks of QR code ...
IPStrom Takedown Russian Mastermind Pleads Guilty
On Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, the United States (US) government initiated the IPStrom takedown, Russian mastermind pled guilty to being the brains behind the operation. The IPStrom malware network was taken down ...
How to Combat ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams with Decision Intelligence
Ever since people started exchanging goods and services, there has been a risk of one party scamming the other. And there has always been a risk of a third party scamming both ...
Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios
Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes ...
AI and Microdirectives
Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws. All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by your government ...
Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels
Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence: While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement and a ...
