Category: Crime

US Homeland Security Reveals Guide to Enhance Cyber Incident Reporting

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has introduced new recommendations to streamline the reporting of cyber incidents across the Department of Defense and 32 other federal agencies. The guide is expected to further protect the country’s vital infrastructure, reduce the burden on cybersecurity partners, and decrease the downtime of associated operations in each sector covered. The recommendations will also enhance the prevention, response, and recovery from cyber attacks and aid organizations in improving malicious cyber threat identification. ‘Clear, Consistent…

TransUnion denies it was hacked, links leaked data to 3rd party

Credit reporting firm TransUnion has denied claims of a security breach after a threat actor known as USDoD leaked data allegedly stolen from the company’s network. The Chicago-based company’s over 10,000 employees provide their services to millions of consumers and more than 65,000 businesses from 30 countries. “Immediately upon discovering these assertions, we partnered with outside cybersecurity and forensic experts to launch a thorough investigation,” the company said. “At this time, we and our internal and external experts have found…

War crimes tribunal ICC says it has been hacked

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Tuesday its computer system had been hacked, a breach at one of the world’s most high-profile international institutions and one that handles highly sensitive information about war crimes. The ICC said it had detected unusual activity on its computer network at the end of last week, prompting a response that was still ongoing. A spokesperson declined to comment on how serious the hack was, whether it has been fully resolved, or who might…

Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage

The Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked dozens of terabytes of sensitive data starting in July 2020 while contributing open-source AI learning models to a public GitHub repository. Almost three years later, this was discovered by cloud security firm Wiz whose security researchers found that a Microsoft employee inadvertently shared the URL for a misconfigured Azure Blob storage bucket containing the leaked information. Microsoft linked the data exposure to using an excessively permissive Shared Access Signature (SAS) token, which allowed full…

U.S. State Department Statement Regarding Transnational Repression

Mitigating Threats Posed by Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors’ Exploitation of Default Multifactor Authentication Protocol and “PrintNightmare” Vulnerability

The FBI Establishes New Virtual Assets Unit

Contractors Indicted for Rigging Bids on Subcontract Work and Defrauding U.S. Military Bases in South Korea

U.S. v. Victor Btesh, et al.

Victor Btesh, Bruce Fish, BDF Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a “The Big Lebowski”, Michelle’s DVD Funhouse, Inc. d/b/a “The Amazing Express”, MJR Prime, LLC d/b/a “Ready 2 Go”, and Prime Brooklyn, LLC d/b/a “Super Super Fast”, knowingly entered into and engaged in a combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by fixing prices for DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs sold through the Amazon Marketplace platform to customers located throughout the United States. The charged conspiracy began at least as early as October…

FBI, State Department Announce $5 Million Reward for Fugitive Semion Mogilevich

Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)

Director Christopher Wray Announces Actions to Disrupt and Prosecute Russian Criminal Activity

$90 Million Yacht of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg Seized by Spain at Request of United States

Man Charged with Transnational Repression Campaign While Acting as an Illegal Agent of the Chinese Government in the United States

Four Russian Government Employees Charged in Two Historical Hacking Campaigns Targeting Critical Infrastructure Worldwide

U.S. v. Choon Foo Yong aka Keith Yong