Quinn Wilson reports: Hunter Biden and Rudy Giuliani told a federal court on Friday that Biden was ending his data hacking suit after the parties reached a joint agreement, ending claims by the president’s son that the former New York mayor illegally hacked and manipulated data from his laptop. The parties agreed to dismiss the suit without…
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Owners of “Empire Market” Charged in Chicago With Operating $430 Million Dark Web Marketplace
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Illinois, June 14: CHICAGO — Two men have been charged in federal court in Chicago with operating “Empire Market,” a dark web marketplace that enabled users to anonymously buy and sell more than $430 million in illegal goods and services around the world. THOMAS PAVEY, also known as “Dopenugget,”…
Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested
Brian Krebs reports: A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider, a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio, LastPass, DoorDash, Mailchimp, and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years. The Spanish daily Murcia Today reports the suspect was wanted by the FBI and arrested in Palma de Mallorca as he…
HC3: Analyst Note: Healthcare Sector DDoS Guide
May 30, 2024 HC3: Analyst Note TLP:CLEAR Report: 20240530120 Executive Summary A Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a type of cyber attack in which an attacker uses multiple systems, often referred to as a botnet, to send a high volume of traffic or requests to a targeted network or system, overwhelming it and making it unavailable…
Never heard of the Embargo ransomware group? SuspectFile provides some insight.
Marco A. De Felice (aka @amvinfe) writes: Embargo is yet another ransomware group emerging in the digital extortion landscape, a group that some industry analysts compare to the much more well-known Alphv group. However, programming similarities do not align with the statements made by a group member during our interview. The program used by Embargo…
911 S5 Botnet Dismantled and Its Administrator Arrested in Coordinated International Operation
A court-authorized international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department disrupted a botnet used to commit cyber attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats, and export violations. As part of this operation, YunHe Wang, 35, a People’s Republic of China national and St. Kitts and Nevis citizen-by-investment, was arrested on May 24…