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Book Review: The Crypto Launderers: Crime and CryptoCurrencies
The Crypto Launderers: Crime and Cryptocurrencies from the Dark Web to DeFi and Beyond - by David Carlisle I wish I had a way to review this book without having first read ...
Microsoft Alert: COLDRIVER Credential Theft Rising Again
In a recent Microsoft security alert, the notorious threat actor known as COLDRIVER has escalated its credential theft activities, targeting entities strategically significant to Russia. Simultaneously, it has refined its capabilities to ...
Russia Force-Feeds new, ‘Trusted’ CA—Yeah, RIGHT
Websites in Russia can’t renew their TLS/HTTPS certs. Moscow’s solution is to create a new certificate authority. But the man-in-the-middle threat should be obvious ...
Lumen Says It’ll Exit Russia—but Will it REALLY?
Lumen Technologies said it’s pulling out of Russia—or did it? We read the PR spin carefully ...
Huawei CFO, US DoJ Reach Deferred Prosecution Agreement
Last week, the three-year saga of Huawei’s CFO, Meng Wanzhou, accused of trade secret theft, obstruction of justice and sanctions-busting reached its conclusion. Meng and the U.S. Attorney’s office reached a deferred ...
Treasury Sanctions SUEX Exchange for Laundering Ransoms
The Biden administration fired another shot in its battle against ransomware Tuesday as the U.S. Treasury Department took steps to disrupt the financial infrastructure behind ransoms, designating for sanctions the SUEX OTC, ...
U.S. Requires Servers to Ban TikTok, WeChat Traffic
On Sunday, Sept. 20, Chinese company ByteDance’s TikTok and WeChat die. President Trump’s executive order, which prohibits any “transactions” with ByteDance thereafter, has now been clarified to note that “transactions” include both ...
