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Qakbot Cracked: FBI and Friends Hack the Hackers

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Operation Duck Hunt shoots to kill big botnet ...
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PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk

PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk

| | Addison Rae, Bella Thorne, Joseph James O'Connor, Ne'er-Do-Well News, PlugWalkJoe, REACT Task Force, SIM swapping, Snapchat, swatting, TikTok, twitter hack, U.S. Justice Department
One day after last summer's mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. When the Justice Department last week announced ...
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Task Force Seeks to Disrupt Ransomware Payments

Task Force Seeks to Disrupt Ransomware Payments

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Some of the world's top tech firms are backing a new industry task force focused on disrupting cybercriminal ransomware gangs by limiting their ability to get paid, and targeting the individuals and ...
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Arrest, Seizures Tied to Netwalker Ransomware

Arrest, Seizures Tied to Netwalker Ransomware

| | Chainalysis, Ne'er-Do-Well News, NetWalker, Ransomware, Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, U.S. Justice Department
U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. In connection with the seizure, a Canadian national ...
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Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

| | Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Data breaches, Nicholas Weaver, Orion, PACER, SolarWinds breach, U.S. Justice Department
The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of countless sealed court documents on file with the U.S ...
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Two Russians Charged in $17M Cryptocurrency Phishing Spree

Two Russians Charged in $17M Cryptocurrency Phishing Spree

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U.S. authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and ...
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Three Charged in July 15 Twitter Compromise

Three Charged in July 15 Twitter Compromise

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Three individuals have been charged for their alleged roles in the July 15 hack on Twitter, an incident that resulted in Twitter profiles for some of the world's most recognizable celebrities, executives ...
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New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy

New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy

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The U.S. Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build multiple botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of ...
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A Light at the End of Liberty Reserve’s Demise?

A Light at the End of Liberty Reserve’s Demise?

| | A Little Sunshine, Arthur Budovsky, IRS, liberty reserve, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Justice Department
In May 2013, the U.S. Justice Department seized Liberty Reserve, alleging the virtual currency service acted as a $6 billion financial hub for the cybercrime world. Prompted by assurances that the government ...
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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

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The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the ...
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