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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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A police car goes past the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, and Lubyanka Square in front of it in central Moscow on March 3, 2023. (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

US and British authorities sanction, indict Russian hackers

Geopolitics

The American actor Elijah Wood, pictured here at a Hollywood premiere in March, was one of the American actors tricked into recording videos used in a Kremlin information operation. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Russian information operation uses US celebrity Cameos to attack Zelensky

Geopolitics

The North Korean flag files over the North Korean embassy in Beijing, 18 July 2007. (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. government sanctions prolific North Korean cyber espionage unit

Geopolitics

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Ahead of 2024 election, Meta worries about lack of information on top-tier nation-state covert operations

Geopolitics

Aerial view of a water treatment plant. (Getty Images)

Pennsylvania water facility hit by Iran-linked hackers

Threats

Image taken from a video shared by the Ukraine Cyber Police Tuesday. (Ukraine Cyber Police)

Ransomware gang broken up in Ukraine as a result of international operation

Cybercrime

A picture taken on November 23, 2023, shows an Israeli flag near the Dome of the Rock shrine, Islam’s third holiest site, in Jerusalem’s Old City. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Shadowy hacking group targeting Israel shows outsized capabilities

Threats

The Boeing Company headquarters are shown January 25, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Ransomware groups rack up victims among corporate America

Cybercrime

Ukraine’s national flag flies in Kyiv on February 26, 2022. (GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Senior Ukrainian cybersecurity officials sacked amid corruption probe

Government