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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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Credit cards and dollar bills. a blue plastic bank card is lying on a pile of American dollars. ( Diy13/Getty Images)

Moroccan cybercrime group impersonates nonprofits and abuses cloud services to rake in gift card cash

Cybercrime

Internet connector into a LAN router switch. (Yori Meirizan/Getty Images)

Chinese-linked hacking units increasingly use ‘ORBs’ to obfuscate espionage, researchers say

Geopolitics

In a photo taken on April 18, 2019, people stand before computer screens in a lobby of the Grand People’s Study House in Pyongyang. (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

Arizona woman arrested and charged in North Korean IT worker scheme

Threats

Law enforcement seizure notice posted to the BreachForums website Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (CyberScoop)

BreachForums, a key English-language cybercrime forum, seized by the FBI

Cybercrime

Paramedics taking patient on stretcher from ambulance to hospital. ( FangXiaNuo/Getty Images)

Ransomware used in attack that disrupted US hospitals

Cybercrime

Hospital beds. (Zhenjin Li/Getty Images)

Major health care system hobbled by ‘cyber incident’

Cybercrime

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

Boeing confirms attempted $200 million ransomware extortion attempt

Cybercrime

An Iranian flag waves in a wind outside the Vienna International Centre hosting the United Nations (UN) headquarters and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as the socalled EU 5+1 talks with Iran take place in Vienna, on July 3, 2014. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

How an Iranian-linked influence campaign pivoted after Oct. 7 attack on Israel

Geopolitics

A pedestrian walks past a seal reading “Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation”, displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building, in Washington, DC, on August 15, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

US, UK authorities unmask Russian national as LockBit administrator

Ransomware