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Meet Cozy Bear — the Russian cyber espionage group allegedly behind US government data breach
Cozy Bear, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group behind the latest hack on the US government, h…
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Justice Department leaders are expanding their crackdown on cyber criminals and cryptocurrency abuse, a top official said
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said DOJ has a 12-member team led by a computer crimes prosecut…
C. Ryan Barber
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Old malware makes a comeback as new players enter cyber warfare
Cyberattacks are escalating, and the coronavirus pandemic may have played a role, but is not the on…
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The Republican National Committee said a third-party Microsoft IT contractor was breached in cyber attack last week, but no GOP data stolen
The breach comes less than a month after President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Puti…
Erin Snodgrass
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Russian scammers are conning senior executives into giving away $2.7 million by impersonating real CEOs and lawyers
"This is a very sophisticated and well-researched operation, run by experienced hackers who ha…
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Ukraine official says Russian cyberattacks on its energy network could equate to war crimes
Victor Zhora, a top Ukrainian cyber official, told Politico that Ukraine is gathering evidence of R…
Joshua Zitser
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A Russian war fanatic was planning to buy military drones, hackers said. They made him buy $25,000 worth of sex toys instead.
The Cyber Resistance group said it hacked Mikhail Luchin's AliExpress account and bought $25,000 wo…
Sinéad Baker
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REvil ransomware group strikes again with attack on hundreds of companies right before long holiday weekend
REvil most recently attacked meat supplier JBS, which ultimately paid $11 million to get its proces…
Matthew Fox
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The US is scrambling to deal with cyberattacks, and that may mean new roles and missions for special-ops units
For US special-operations units, the cyber domain offers more opportunities to understand an advers…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Top Senate Democrats sound the alarm about Russian interference in the 2022 midterms
The senators wrote that the US supports Ukraine, "we must also be vigilant in guarding against thre…
Grace Panetta,John Haltiwanger
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Supply-chain vulnerabilities and 4 other threats to the US that the FBI director is worried about
The threats come from both state and non-state actors, with China and Russia behind some of the cha…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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North America has become the world's biggest ransomware target as DeFi and crypto use expands, study shows
From July 2020 to June 2021, most of the crypto-based attacks were associated with Russia-based cyb…
Isabelle Lee
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Fiona Hill says Russia's hackers 'already declared war' on the US and want to prove they're a 'major cyber force'
Hill said Russia was ruthless in terms of its pursuit of intelligence and indifferent to any damage…
John Haltiwanger
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Hacking group behind the cyberattack on a key US fuel pipeline is said to be disbanding
DarkSide made headlines for hacking Colonial Pipeline, forcing the major East Coast fuel supplier t…
Dominic-Madori Davis
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The hackers that attacked a major US oil pipeline say it was only for money - here's what to know about DarkSide
A major US fuel pipeline has been offline since Friday. The ransomware group that did it says it wa…
Natasha Dailey
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The Justice Department just shut down little-known crypto exchange Bitzlato and arrested its Russian founder in what authorities claim is a huge blow to crypto crime
US authorities shuttered the Hong Kong-based crypto exchange's services, alleging that it laundered…
Morgan Chittum
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National Crime Agency should publish probe of how sensitive papers were stolen and amplified by 'Russian actors', MP says
"Russian actors" amplified classified trade documents stolen from ex-trade secretary Liam Fox's ema…
Henry Dyer
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Anonymous hacking group has broken into a Russian space website and leaked files belonging to its space agency Roscosmos
Cyber-criminals linked to Anonymous hacking group have broken into a website belonging to Russia's …
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New York City just launched a free app to protect people's phones because cyber criminals are becoming a bigger threat
"Our intent is to have [the app] designed in a way that at the very code level, it is only doing th…
Brennan Weiss
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GOP Sen. Roy Blunt says the US should 'treat Russia like it's virtually a criminal enterprise' amid cyberattacks
The White House last week said it believed that Russian criminals were likely responsible for a cyb…