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Belarusian-Ukrainian national Maksim Silnikau was arrested in Spain and is now extradited to the USA to face charges for creating the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation in 2021 and running a...
Microsoft says Iran's efforts to influence the November US presidential election have gathered pace recently and there are signs that point toward its intent to incite violence against key figures. "Over the past several months, we have seen the emergence of significant influence activity by Iranian actors," Microsoft said.
The U.S. Justice Department arrested a Nashville man charged with helping North Korean IT workers obtain remote work at companies across the United States and operating a laptop farm they used...
The FBI today arrested a Tennessee man suspected of running a "Laptop farm" that got North Koreans, posing as Westerners, IT jobs at American and British companies. According to US prosecutors, Matthew Isaac Knoot, 38, of Nashville, defrauded multiple US and UK companies by applying for remote technology jobs, and then secretly outsourced those jobs to North Koreans.
Black Hat US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly and her counterparts from the UK and EU want the world to know that, when it comes to securing elections, they've never been more prepared. "I can say with confidence that election infrastructure has never been more secure," Easterly claimed, and she had a ready explanation as to why: "The election stakeholder community has never been stronger."
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against social media platform TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, alleging widespread violations of children's privacy laws. [...]
At least two Russian cybercriminals are among those being returned to their motherland as part of a multinational prisoner exchange deal announced Thursday. Videos circulating online today showed Seleznev and other freed Russian prisoners shaking hands with President Vladimir Putin upon disembarking the plane that carried them back to their country.
US law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are reminding the public that the country's voting systems will remain unaffected by distributed denial of service attacks as the next presidential election fast approaches. The feds didn't go as far as to say they expected DDoS attacks to strike the November election, but they did comment on how popular a tactic they are among politically and ideologically motivated hacktivists and cybercriminals.
CISA and the FBI said today that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting election infrastructure will, at most, hinder public access to information but will have no impact on the...
US border agents must obtain a warrant, in New York at least, to search anyone's phone and other electronic device when traveling in or out of the country, another federal judge has ruled. Judge Nina Morrison of the Eastern District of New York issued a decision [PDF] last week that Customs and Border Patrol officials need a warrant to search citizens and non-citizens' electronics in all but the most exceptional of circumstances.