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AJ Vicens

AJ covers nation-state threats and cybercrime. He was previously a reporter at Mother Jones. Get in touch via Signal/WhatsApp: (810-206-9411).

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This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of “CrowdStrike” cybersecurity technology company in Paris on July 19, 2024, amid massive global IT outage. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)

Low-level cybercriminals are pouncing on CrowdStrike-connected outage

Cybercrime

An exterior view shows the marquee at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino left of the Leo the Lion statue on the Las Vegas Strip on August 28, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Police nab 17-year-old linked to group behind MGM Resorts cyberattack

Cybercrime

This photograph taken in Lyon, eastern France, on September 5, 2023 shows the entrance of the International Criminal Police Organization headquarters, known as Interpol. (Photo by OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE/AFP via Getty Images)

300 arrests made in crackdown of West African cyber fraud group

Cybercrime

Jeep vehicles are delivered to a dealership on June 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. A cyber attack on CDK Global, a software provider that helps dealerships manage sales and service, has crippled the workflow at approximately 15,000 dealerships across the United States and Canada. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Wallets tied to CDK ransom group received $25 million two days after attack

Ransomware

Former President Donald Trump gives a speech on tax reform at the Heritage Foundation’s President’s Club Meeting at a hotel in Washington, DC, on October 17, 2017. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data

Cybercrime

An aerial view of the building of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, also known as the Main Intellegence Directorate, or GRU, July 06, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

Russian national indicted for role in cyberattacks on Ukraine

Geopolitics

Members of the People’s Liberation Army flag honour guard march in Tiananmen Square after the closing session of the NPC, or National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 11, 2024 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Chinese hackers are increasingly deploying ransomware, researchers say

Ransomware

A car hauler passes a Chevrolet dealership on June 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

US car dealers are feeling the pain of CDK cyberattack

Cybersecurity

Hacker with covered face in his operating room with multiple displays. (Sutthichai Supapornpasupad/Getty Images)

Chinese-aligned hacking group targeted more than a dozen government agencies, researchers find

Geopolitics