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A Dutch court on Tuesday found the cofounder of the anonymizing cryptocurrency service Tornado Cash guilty of money laundering, sentencing him to five years and four months in prison. The sentencing ...
A group declaring itself to be “first-class Russian hackers” defaced potentially hundreds of local and regional British newspaper websites on Saturday. The group published a breaking news story titled ...
Britain’s central government, local government and utilities sector were each impacted by more ransomware attacks last year than in all previous years combined. According to a recent update of the ...
President Joe Biden’s expected pick to helm the U.S. Marine Corps’ digital warfighting branch is caught in a monthslong hold on senior military promotions and nominations in the Senate led by a ...
One of the three operators of WeLeakInfo, a website that sold access to hacked databases, was sentenced today in the Netherlands to two years in prison, with one year suspended. In court proceedings ...
SAN FRANCISCO – The government of China’s objective in deploying Volt Typhoon hackers to break into U.S. critical infrastructure is to “cause disruption and sow societal panic,” a senior cybersecurity ...
A Canadian company that supplies fighter jets for airborne training exercises has been hit with a ransomware attack. In a brief statement to The Record on Wednesday, Top Aces confirmed that it is in ...
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed on Monday that the attack that shut down one of the country’s largest pipelines over the weekend was caused by Darkside ransomware. Although the ...
The U.S. government and several other countries have been grappling with a key question over the last year: Should ransomware payments be banned, with select waivers available for special situations?
SAN FRANCISCO — White House official Anne Neuberger said cybersecurity regulations for the healthcare industry are coming, and she questioned the emerging industry backlash to them, citing several ...
The Justice Department announced new charges Thursday against one of the most notorious scammers on the now-defunct criminal marketplace Silk Road, who they say allegedly used the platform to sell a ...
Editor’s Note: Story updated 3:45 p.m. Eastern U.S. time with additional details. LockbitSupp, the pseudonymous leader of the LockBit ransomware group, was identified as a Russian national called ...