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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...

What was the cause-a technical glitch or an FBI raid? The websites of the ALPHV ransomware group (also known as BlackCat) have been unavailable for the past 4 days. The failure occurred suddenly, raising suspicions about the intervention of law enforcement agencies. The ALPHV Group's (also...

Customers and casino employees should not call unfamiliar numbers to "secure" their systems. The FBI warns of a growing number of cyber attacks on gambling businesses. Especially vulnerable are small establishments and, oddly enough, casinos owned by Native Americans. Criminals use remote...

Will the latest security recommendations help vulnerable organizations? The US agencies of the FBI and CISA issued a joint warning about the activities of the hacker group Scattered Spider, consisting mainly of young people under 20 years of age. The group, also known by various other names...

The FBI eliminated the IPStorm botnet and its infrastructure after the IPStorm owner made a deal with the investigation in September. The US Department of Justice announced the dismantling of the IPStorm botnet infrastructure, which affected thousands of Linux, Mac and Android devices across...

Experts identified a classic attack strategy and shared it with all organizations. In a joint statement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provided new information about tools used by attackers related to the AvosLocker...

The largest operation of the FBI failed or did the attackers conduct a multi-pass operation? Researchers at Cisco Talos report that the hackers behind the Qakbot botnet are now spreading ransomware. Note that at the end of August, US law enforcement agencies eliminated Qakbot, one of the most...

Mikhail Matveev, known online as Wazawaka and Boriselcin, agreed to give an interview to TechCrunch. The source confirmed that he was the one who the FBI put on the wanted list as the author of successful attacks using encryption programs. In the United States, charges of computer hacking...

Chinese hackers have surpassed the FBI - the agency has nothing else to brag about. At the mWISE conference in Washington, US FBI Director Chris Uray said that China's cyber espionage program is so extensive that it surpasses all similar programs of other major countries combined. The FBI...

The water is muddier than it seems — intruders continue to penetrate even "patched" systems. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that fixes for the critical Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) remote command entry bug are "ineffective" and even patched devices are still...

Cybercriminals stole 1,580 bitcoins and spread them across 6 different crypto wallets. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned last Tuesday that hackers linked to North Korea may attempt to cash out more than $ 40 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency. US law enforcement agencies...

The Iranian hacker group Neferian, also known as the DDoS Empire, has lost control of its own Telegram channel. The message about this was posted by employees of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who took over the public. “This site was intercepted by the FBI for providing services...

Threats to the director of the Milwaukee Board of Elections led to federal intervention. Claire Woodall-Wogg, director of the Milwaukee City Election Commission, was subjected to a flood of abusive messages and threats after her correspondence with election consultant Ryan Chew was published on...

Sales of stolen credit card data, malicious software for various hacker attacks, such as ransomware, information systems penetration, and database theft. Sergei Gusev, 43, a Russian citizen who became Portuguese and a resident of Gaia, is suspected of such illegal activities and has been...

The US Department of Justice has charged 23-year-old Russian citizen Igor Dekhtyarchuk and added him to the FBI's list of most wanted cybercriminals. US authorities believe that Dekhtyarchuk ran a large marketplace after the fall, where bank cards, access to compromised devices and accounts, as...

Attackers have sent out tens of thousands of emails on behalf of the FBI warning of a possible cyberattack Hackers hacked into the external email system of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Bloomberg informs about it with reference to the statement of the department. The...

The court allowed the FBI to require the suspect to unlock the smartphone using a fingerprint. The FBI used one of its most controversial methods to obtain information about the activities of the man accused of participating in the capture of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and the attack on...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has asked Apple to help decipher the iPhone of the man who started the shooting at a military base in Florida on December 6, 2019, writes Ars Technica. The shooter's name was Mohammed Said al-Shamrani, he was a trainee from Saudi Arabia and, along with other...

The IDLE program will act as the basic security system for companies. The FBI has launched the Illicit Data Loss Exploitation (IDLE) program to help companies reduce the damage from data theft. Under the new program, companies will deploy "false information" to trick intruders and corporate...