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Doubling Down in Vegas: The High-Stakes Question of Whether to Pay

Learn how Nevada refused to pay ransom after a 2025 cyberattack, restoring systems in 28 days—and what this reveals about ransomware readiness and policy ...

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Aeza Group Latest BPH Service Provider Sanctioned by U.S. Treasury

Jeffrey Burt | July 6, 2025 | bulletproof hosting providers, OFAC Sanctions, Russia, U.S. Department of Treasury

Five months after sanction Zservers, the U.S. Treasury Department targeted Aeza Group, another Russia-based bulletproof hosting services provider for allowing threat actors to host ransomware and other campaigns on its infrastructure, which ...

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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Chinese Individual, Company for Data Breaches

Jeffrey Burt | January 20, 2025 | Biden administration, china espionage, OFAC Sanctions, Salt Typhoon cyberattack

The U.S. Treasury sanction a Chinese bad actor for participating in the hack of the agency's networks and a Chinese for its involvement with Salt Typhoon's attacks on U.S. telecoms. Meanwhile, the ...

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FBI Botnet Takedown: 911 S5 With 19 Million Infected Devices

Wajahat Raja | June 14, 2024 | 911 S5, Blockchain Analytics, Botnet Takedown, cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity News, Cybersecurity Prevention, DOJ, FBI, FBI Investigations, Financial Fraud, Identity Theft, International Cybercrime, Malware, OFAC Sanctions, residential proxies, Yunhe Wang

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 ...

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The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

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