A cybercriminal known as cfk on popular hacking forums and @AnibalLeaks on Twitter claims to have stolen a database consisting of 45 million records of Argentina’s National Registry of Persons, or ReNaPer. The Argentinian government, in a statement, denied that there has been any unauthorized entry into its systems or a massive leak of data […]
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has blacklisted Russia-based cryptocurrency exchange Suex for allegedly laundering tens of millions of dollars for ransomware operators, scammers and darknet markets. It is the first such designation for a virtual currency exchange and part of the Biden administration’s efforts to undermine ransomware’s financial infrastructure. The department will now add […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had the keys to REvil’s ransomware as the cybercriminals were locking up company after company’s data and did not publicly share the keys. What were they thinking? What were they protecting? The Washington Post reports the FBI had secretly obtained the digital key to the Russia-based ransomware group, REvil, […]
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