A suspected senior member of the hacker group OPERA1ER has been arrested in Operation Nervone, conducted jointly by multiple international law enforcement agencies, Interpol said in a press note. “Following extensive cooperation, Interpol, Afripol, Group-IB, and C?te d’Ivoire’s Direction de l’Information et des Traces Technologiques (DITT) are announcing the arrest of a suspected senior member […]
Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that […]
How many ransomware-wielding hackers can claim among their bona fides to have caused a national cheese shortage, not least in the Gouda-loving Netherlands? Enter Mikhail Matveev, 31, the Russian national whom prosecutors accused of wielding not one but three strains of ransomware. Two federal indictments unsealed this month accuse Matveev – aka Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, […]
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