Jamie Tarabay reports: The Biden administration plans to support a controversial cybercrime treaty at the United Nations this week despite concerns that it could be misused by authoritarian regimes, according to senior government officials. The agreement would be the first legally binding UN agreement on cybersecurity and could become a global legal framework for countries to cooperate…
Category: Of Note
It’s the Senate’s last chance to pass the bipartisan PRESS Act: Get Busy!
Zack Whittaker reports: Folks in America: Your senators only have a few weeks left to pass the PRESS Act, a federal “shield” bill that the House passed with unanimous, bipartisan support in January but has been waiting in the Senate for a final vote ever since. The PRESS Act, if passed into law, would enshrine nationwide protections for journalists across…
Throwing caution to the winds, “kiberphant0m” tries to extort AT&T with Trump and Harris call logs
While many of us were waking up to the election results yesterday, at least one person was busy trying to extort AT&T using the president-elect and current vice president’s call logs. In their post, “kiberphant0m” posted this demand concerning AT&T call logs: TRUMP & Vice President of the United States CALL LOGS — OFFICIAL WARNING…
INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia II took down 22,000 malicious IP addresses
From an INTERPOL announcement yessterday: A global INTERPOL operation has taken down more than 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats. Operation Synergia II (1 April – 31 August 2024) specifically targeted phishing, ransomware and information stealers and was a joint effort from INTERPOL, private sector partners and law enforcement agencies from…
Canada Arrests Man Suspected of Hacks of Snowflake Customers
Margi Murphy and Brian Platt report: Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of being behind a string of hacks involving as many as 165 customers of Snowflake Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Following a request from the US, Alexander “Connor” Moucka was taken into custody on a provisional arrest warrant on…
Fourth Circuit hears oral arguments about the sentencing of Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka “Pompompurin”)
On October 29, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the government’s appeal of Conor Brian Fitzpatrick’s sentence. At issue was whether District Court Judge Leonie M. Brinkema had abused her discretion in sentencing Fitzpatrick and whether her sentence was “substantively unreasonable.” Judges have discretion in sentencing and courts are often reluctant…