The Conti ransomware operation has undergone some significant organizational structure changes in the past months after the brand became toxic due to its affiliation with the Russian government.
The United States Department of Justice has announced that it would no longer charge ethical hackers under the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
United States authorities announced this week that they have retrieved more than $15 million in illicit proceeds derived from the advertising fraud scheme known as “3ve.”
A citizen of France and Venezuela has been charged in the United States for allegedly creating, using, and selling ransomware.
A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in a US prison for decrypting stolen usernames and passwords and selling them on a dark web marketplace.
Spain’s government on Tuesday sacked the country’s spy chief as part of a widening scandal over the hacking of the mobile phones of the prime minister and Catalan separatist leaders.
Eager to hunt down key leaders of the Conti ransomware gang, the United States Government is willing to pay up to $10 million for information leading to the identification and/or location of anyone holding a key leadership role in the group.
A leading Catalan separatist politician said Thursday that Spain’s top intelligence official acknowledged that her agency had hacked into the cellphones of “some” of the dozens of politicians reported to be targeted by spyware but she said it had proper judicial authorization.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says business email compromise (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) losses have surpassed $43 billion globally.
Spanish officials said Monday that the cellphones of the prime minister and the defense minister were infected last year with Pegasus spyware that is only available to government agencies in an unauthorized operation.
