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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 large screen displays United States President Joe Biden, left, and China’s President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit as people walk by during the evening CCTV news broadcast outside a shopping mall on November 16, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Chinese influence operation seeks to sow political discord, ‘aggressively’ targets U.S. midterms

Geopolitics

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Grand jury indicts Ukrainian for role in vast Raccoon Infostealer cybercrime operation

Threats

People stage a protest on October 1, 2022 in Rome, following the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in Iran. (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian government blames ‘foreign country’ for hack-and-leak of nuclear information

Geopolitics

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Researchers uncover more than 167,000 stolen credit card numbers, primarily from the U.S.

Threats

The Iranian national flag is seen outside the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters during the agency’s Board of Governors meeting in Vienna on March 1, 2021. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian hackers that tampered with 2020 election could once again target U.S., FBI warns

Threats

Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division Adam Hickey. (Pixelme Studios).

Top DOJ official ‘pleased’ with multiagency and branch response to courts data breach

Government

Chinese flag made by children holding up colored boards in North Korea on Sept. 6, 2012. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

Chinese-linked hackers targeted U.S. state legislature, researchers say

Threats

polling place, election site — (Lorie Shaull / Flickr)

Election workers in battleground states faced onslaught of malicious emails, researchers say

Threats

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‘IT security issue’ impacts multiple hospitals across several states

Threats