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State Department Offers $1 million for Info on Russian Hackers

ByStephanie AdlamApril 27, 2022

The US State Department has announced a reward amounting up to 10 million dollars for the information about six presumably Russian intelligence agents accused by the US authorities of involvement in the 2017 NotPetya virus hacker attacks. The announcement states that the

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Fraudsters arrested for years running fake site to order assassinations

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 8, 2022

Romanian police have arrested five men behind the dark web’s most notorious assassinations site, Besa Mafia, Camorra Hitman and, more recently, Hitman Marketplace #1. In fact, the resource was a fake, the site administrators did not know any killers, but this did not

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The FBI believes that the HelloKitty cryptor is controlled by operators from Ukraine

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyDecember 16, 2021

A medical organization from Oregon, which recently reported a breach and data leak, accidentally made it clear that, according to the FBI, HelloKitty (FiveHands) malware is controlled by operators from the territory of Ukraine. As a rule, law enforcement agencies do not

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FBI study guide showed what data law enforcement officers can get from instant messengers

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyDecember 2, 2021

An FBI study guide has been made publicly available as part of a Freedom of Information law request filed by Property of the People, an American non-profit organization that deals with government transparency. The resulting document contains training tips for agents and

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Hackers broke into FBI mail server and sent fake cyberattack alerts

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyNovember 15, 2021

Last weekend, unknown hackers managed to broke into the mail server of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Hackers used the access to send letters that imitated FBI alerts about cyberattacks and data theft. Spamhaus, a non-profit spam-tracking organization, reported

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Media said that the REvil sites were hacked by law enforcement agencies

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 22, 2021

Reuters reports that the recent shutdown of the REvil hack group was due to hack of hacker’s sites by law enforcement agencies. Let me remind you that earlier this week the operations of the ransomware REvil were again suspended, as an unknown person hacked the group’s

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 4, 2021

Ukrainian Cyber Police have arrested two operators of an unnamed ransomware. It is reported that the operation was carried out jointly by the Ukrainian and French police, the FBI, Europol and Interpol. The suspects are believed to have been involved in attacks on 100 North

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FBI Kept Secret Key To Decrypt Data After REvil Attacks

ByVladimir KrasnogolovySeptember 22, 2021

Journalists of The Washington Post found out how the FBI obtained the key to decrypt the data, which was affected in the attacks of the REvil ransomware. First, should be recalled that the background of what is happening: last week Bitdefender published a universal utility

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US authorities accused Ukrainian citizen of running a brute force botnet

ByVladimir KrasnogolovySeptember 9, 2021

The US authorities accused the Ukrainian citizen of hacking: namely, they reported that 28-year-old Ukrainian citizen Gleb Ivanov-Tolpintsev had been extradited from Poland and accused of selling access to hacked computer systems through a specialized darknet marketplace.

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List of suspects in terrorism that are monitored by the FBI leaked to the network

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyAugust 17, 2021

A copy of the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) list has Leaked to the network. It is a list of suspects in terrorism that are monitored by FBI. The database contains 1.9 million records, including the secret “No Fly List”, that is, a list of persons