Catherine Belton reports: A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and…
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9 more suspects jailed in MİT’s cyber spy op
Hurriyet Daily News reports: A court in Ankara has arrested nine additional individuals as part of a Turkish intelligence operation that dismantled an international cyber espionage network intercepting personal data. The total number of arrested suspects in the inquiry has now reached 20, as security sources said on Oct. 18. Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) and the Ankara police…
Pro-Palestinian hacktivists attack infrastructure in Cyprus
Yemen News Agency (SABA) reports that infrastructure attacks by a number of pro-Palestinian groups has caused temporary disruption to banks, airports and government websites in Cyprus: The first warnings about a possible cyber operation against Cyprus appeared last week, following statements on Telegram and dark web forums from groups such as “Lulzsic Black” (sic), “Moroccan…
FBI Arrests Alabama Man in the January 2024 SEC X Hack that Spiked the Value of Bitcoin
Kelvin Munene Murithi reports: The FBI has arrested Eric Council Jr., 25, of Athens, Alabama, in connection with the January 2024 unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X account, previously known as Twitter. The arrest follows allegations that Council played a key role in a hacking incident that led to a…
Former Epsilon Senior Executive and Sales Manager Both Sentenced for Selling Data on Millions of U.S. Consumers to Fraudsters
Here is yet another case that reminds us of the insider threat. In this case, the defendants misused Epsilon’s algorithms to predict and sell lists of consumers most likely to respond to fraudster’s schemes’ mailings. Epsilon settled its criminal liability via a deferred prosecution agreement to pay $150 million in penalties and victim compensation and…
Three IRGC Cyber Actors Indicted for ‘Hack-and-Leak’ Operation Designed to Influence the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Iranian nationals, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) employees, Masoud Jalili, 36, also known as, مسعود جلیلی, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, 34, also known as, سید علی آقامیری, and Yaser Balaghi, 37, also known as, یاسر بلاغی, with a conspiracy with others known and…