AJ Vicens is a Reporter at CyberScoop. He covers topics related to cybercrime, cybersecurity, and state-aligned threats, with a focus on security breaches and the implications of the Russia-Ukraine War on cyber activities. AJ has been featured in CyberScoop and previously reported for Mother Jones.
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By: Aj Vicens
The Swedish Public Prosecutor’s Office said the Iranian hacking unit pushed 15,000 texts after breaching an unnamed telecom firm.
The DOJ, Treasury, State Department and Secret Service announce actions against the men allegedly behind notorious payment exchange services and a carding website.
By: Aj Vicens
The issue, discovered and reported by Meta in 2019, affected hundreds of millions of users across Meta platforms.
The Russian operation comes less than a week after the U.S. government unsealed indictments and sanctions against two men allegedly connected to the UAPS system
Voting is open for the 2024 CyberScoop 50 awards! Click here! The simultaneous actions targeted the Star Blizzard espionage operation, which went after government and civil society groups around the world.
The attacks targeted Russia’s leading state media provider and the country’s courts system.
By: Aj Vicens
Latest incident involves stolen employee data, the company said in a federal filing.
The company reported a 300% drop in ransomware attacks that made it to the encryption stage over the past two years.
Staff at U.S. voting machine companies have removed public information about themselves from the internet and have made contingency plans with local law enforcement ahead of the 2024 election, after suffering harassment in 2020, according to industry representatives.
Employees of companies that provide voting machine equipment and services are not taking any chances after being targeted...
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