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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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Caesars Palace Hotel sits along Las Vegas Blvd, along the strip in Las Vegas, NV on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images)

U.S. officials urge more information sharing on prolific cybercrime group

Cybercrime

IDF reservists walk through an area near the Gaza border on November 13, 2023 in Southern Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Pro-Palestinian hacking group evolves tactics amid war

Geopolitics

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Cyber ops linked to Israel-Hamas conflict largely improvised, researchers say

Cybersecurity

PARASKOVIIVKA, UKRAINE – DECEMBER 17: An electric substation of salt mine on December 17, 2022 in Paraskoviivka, Ukraine. Now local residents remain in the village and the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There is no electricity, the village is under constant shelling. Communication works only on the pedestrian bridge via the railway. The salt mines of the state enterprise “Artemsil” stopped working due to hostilities at the end of May. (Photo by Vitalii Pavlenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russian hackers disrupted Ukrainian electrical grid last year

Threats

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Microsoft upgrades security for signing keys in wake of Chinese breach

Threats

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Four dozen countries declare they won’t pay ransomware ransoms

Cybercrime

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Kaspersky reveals ‘elegant’ malware resembling NSA code

Threats

Most of the exterior building lights at Caesars Palace are turned off as parts of the Las Vegas Strip go dark as a result of the statewide shutdown due to the coronavirus continuing to spread across the United States on March 19, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada.(Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Hackers that breached Las Vegas casinos rely on violent threats, research shows

Cybercrime

A Palestinian man walks amid the rubble of buildings hit in Israeli air strikes in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Cyber operations linked to Israel-Hamas fighting gain momentum

Geopolitics