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Russian law enforcement agencies have arrested hackers suspected of stealing about $9 million from Royal Bank of Scotland. American authorities consider this the beginning of fruitful cooperation with the Russian Federation in the fight against cybercriminals. Suspects in one of the world's...

The bureau revealed the earnings of extortionists and the method of data recovery. The FBI is urging victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to seek help, as the FBI has more than 7,000 decryption keys that can help recover encrypted data for free. This was stated by Assistant Director of the FBI...

How does the criminal organization responsible for recent major security breaches work? The cybercrime group Scattered Spider, responsible for last year's series of hacks on American hotels, has about 1,000 members, a senior FBI official said last Friday, May 24. At the recent conference...

The English Guardian recently published an interesting study, which revealed a curious fact — as it turned out, in the United States, one out of four computer technology specialists is an FBI informant. The Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service used the most effective means — the...

New details have brought more clarity to the case of the "great and terrible" LockBitSupp. Last week, the United States, along with the United Kingdom and Australia, filed charges and imposed sanctions against Dmitry Khoroshev, who is considered the leader of the well-known extortion ring...

On a cold day on January 18, 2001, Maxim Igorevich Popov, a 20-year-old Ukrainian boy, nervously pushed open the doors of the American Embassy in London. He could have been mistaken for a student exchange program participant who came to get a visa, but in reality Maxim was a hacker, a member of...

LockBitSupp gave an exclusive interview in which he dispelled myths about his personality. In an exclusive interview with Click Here (Recorded Future), a representative of the LockBit group, known under the pseudonym LockBitSupp, strongly rejects the assumptions about his identity presented by...

The agency reminded users of the dangers of unregistered cryptocurrency services. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the public against using unregistered cryptocurrency transfer services, which can lead to financial losses if they are closed by law enforcement agencies. The...

Law enforcement officers could not forgive Lefterov for infecting tens of thousands of American computers. In the United States, an indictment was filed against a Moldovan citizen, Alexander Lefterov, who is the owner of a large botnet network that infected thousands of computers across the...

The US government contractor specified what information fell into the hands of hackers. Acuity, a US government contractor, confirmed that its GitHub repositories were hacked, as a result of which the attackers stole documents. According to the company, the stolen information was "outdated and...

How the special services drove the first hacker who broke into the Pentagon to suicide "Feed publishes the story of hacker Jonathan James, who hacked the Pentagon at the age of 15 Hackers who try to break into the Pentagon and break into the systems of US intelligence agencies have long been...

Good afternoon, this is Microsoft! Please transfer your money to us immediately. Tether, the issuer of the popular USDT cryptocurrency, is helping US law enforcement agencies investigate a large-scale fraudulent scheme that mainly targeted elderly citizens. The Office of the District Attorney...

America has become a hostage to its own technologies. US intelligence agencies warn of threats associated with the accelerated development of technology. Innovations, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, can have significant economic consequences and lead to unforeseen risks...

What will the introduction of strict digital surveillance measures mean? A recent report by the U.S. Court of Accounts (GAO) claims that many gaming companies are working closely with the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to identify content related to domestic violent extremism...

Christopher Wray described how Beijing is trying to weaken the US from within. At the annual security conference, FBI Director Christopher Wray stressed the need to pay attention to the threat from China. Wray pointed to Beijing's massive efforts to covertly deploy malware on critical U.S...

FBI officials said they were able to eliminate the KV botnet used by hackers from the Chinese group Volt Typhoon (aka Bronze Silhouette, DEV-0391, Insidious Taurus and Vanguard Panda) to evade detection during attacks that target critical US infrastructure. It is reported that Volt Typhoon used...

The largest amount of withdrawals caused panic in the cryptocurrency market. In the largest cybercrime operation in German history, conducted by German law enforcement agencies jointly with the FBI, in mid-January 2024, about 50,000 bitcoins (BTC) were seized, amounting to approximately $2.1...

On January 9, a 22-year-old French citizen was sentenced to three years in prison for participating in the activities of the hacker group ShinyHunters. Sebastien Raoult, better known as Sezyo Kaizen, was extradited to the United States in January 2023 after being arrested in Morocco in 2022. He...

Will ransomware be able to regain its position in the dark community? As a result of a large-scale FBI operation against the ALPHV group (BlackCat), the cybercrime group faced serious problems. The FBI has seized ALPHV's domain space on the dark web, which could damage its reputation and...

The international operation helped the victims save $68 million, and the group's competitors attract new customers. The US Department of Justice announced the successful penetration of the FBI into the infrastructure of the ALPHV ransomware group (BlackCat). The operation allowed agents to...