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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 seal reading "Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation" is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington, DC, on August 9, 2022. — (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian national arrested in Arizona, charged for alleged role in LockBit ransomware attacks

Cybercrime

Cars drive past the headquarters of the Russian General Staff’s Main Intelligence Department (GRU) in Moscow on December 30, 2016. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

Microsoft identifies new hacking unit within Russian military intelligence

Geopolitics

Password compromise. — (Boris Zhitkov/Getty Images)

Researchers unpack massive email scam targeting dozens of companies

Cybercrime

A view of the Russian Central Bank headquarters in downtown Moscow on May 26, 2022. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

Ukrainian hackers target telecom firm connected to Russian central bank

Geopolitics

spectrum abstract

US cyber officials offer technical details associated with CL0P ransomware attacks

Threats

A participant walks past a Google logo at a stand at the 2022 Re:publica digital society festival on June 9, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Security professional’s tweet forces big change to Google email authentication

Research

A man talks on the phone walking along Red Square in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow on February 28, 2023. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian government accuses Apple of colluding with NSA in iPhone spy operation

Geopolitics

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during the signing of the comprehensive program of strategic and long-term cooperation between Iran and Syria on May 03 in Damascus. (Photo by Borna News/Matin Ghasemi/Aksonline/ATPImages)

Iranian dissidents’ claim of presidential hack likely legitimate, experts say

Geopolitics

A vendors looks at her phone in Hanoi on March 31. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP via Getty Images)

Southeast Asian hacking crew racks up victims, rapidly expands criminal campaign

Geopolitics