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US government charges operators of crypto mixing service used by North Korea and ransomware gangs

January 10, 2025

US government ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers, says FBI director

September 19, 2024

Last week, the FBI took control of a botnet made up of hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, such as cameras, video recorders,...

US charges five Russian military hackers with targeting Ukraine’s government with destructive malware

September 6, 2024

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice accused five members of Russia’s military intelligence agency of hacking several Ukrainian government agencies, an unnamed...

FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies

August 12, 2024

The FBI said Monday it seized the servers of a ransomware and extortion gang called Radar (aka Dispossessor). At the time of writing,...

How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang

August 10, 2024

Earlier this year, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies took control of the dark web site of the notorious ransomware gang LockBit,...