The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has unsealed criminal charges against two Russian nationals, alleged to have operated a cybercrime gang that used ransomware to target over 1000 American organisations. Roman Berezhnoy and Egor Nikolaevich Glebov, 33 and 39 years old respectively, are alleged to have extorted over US $16 million in ransom payments using … Read more
Feb 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Ransomware Source: The Nation A coordinated law enforcement operation has taken down the dark web data leak and negotiation sites associated with the 8Base ransomware gang. Visitors to the data leak site are now greeted with a seizure banner that says: “This hidden site and the criminal content have been … Read more
Generative AI has a plethora of well-documented misuses, from making up academic papers to copying artists. And now, it appears to be cropping up in state influence operations. One recent campaign was “very likely” helped by commercial AI voice generation products, including tech publicly released by the hot startup ElevenLabs, according to a recent report … Read more
Online retail giant and cloud-service provider Amazon broke up a phishing operation that impersonated thousands of Amazon Web Service (AWS) domains. The AWS security team, along with the Ukrainian CERT-UA blamed the Russian-backed APT 29 group for an attack which used spoofed AWS domains in an attempt to harvest login credentials from Ukrainian-speaking targets. Since … Read more
International law enforcement agencies have scored another victory against the LockBit gang, with a series of arrests and the seizure of servers used within the notorious ransomware group’s infrastructure. As Europol has detailed in a press release, international authorities have continued to work on “Operation Cronos”, and now arrested four people, seized servers, and implemented … Read more