Published on: 2025-06-13 00:46:02
An international law enforcement operation has taken down AVCheck, a service used by cybercriminals to test whether their malware is detected by commercial antivirus software before deploying it in the wild. The service's official domain at avcheck.net now displays a seizure banner with the crests of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, and the Dutch police (Politie). According to an announcement on the Politie website, AVCheck was one of the largest counter antivi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 20:56:45
The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group of Russian nationals and the takedown of their sprawling botnet offers the clearest example in years of how a single malware operation allegedly enabled hacking operations as varied as ransomware, wartime cyberattacks in Ukraine, and spying against foreign governments. The US Department of Justice t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 20:53:21
The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many of the defendants exposed their real-life identities after accidentally infecting their own systems with the malware. Initially spotted in May 2018 by researchers at the email security firm Proo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 23:56:44
The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group of Russian nationals and the takedown of their sprawling botnet offers the clearest example in years of how a single malware operation allegedly enabled hacking operations as varied as ransomware, wartime cyberattacks in Ukraine, and spying against foreign governments. The US Department of Justice t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-22 00:00:03
We've all seen those emails pushing amazing offers that seem too good to be true, dire warnings that your computer has been compromised, or even threats of jail time if you don't pay your back taxes right away. Those are all common pitches from online scammers trying to get you to panic and click on a link you shouldn't, hand over money or personal information, or download an attachment that turns out to be a computer virus. But new research shows that those common pitches may have just become
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What just happened? Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, has celebrated the communications platform hitting one billion monthly active users by calling rival WhatsApp a "cheap, watered down imitation." Durov recently returned to Dubai after spending several months in France due to a criminal investigation related to criminal activity on Telegram. Durov revealed that Telegram had reached one billion monthly active users on his own personal channel. That marks an increase of 50 million u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-07 11:20:00
What just happened? Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, has celebrated the communications platform hitting one billion monthly active users by calling rival WhatsApp a "cheap, watered down imitation." Durov recently returned to Dubai after spending several months in France due to a criminal investigation related to criminal activity on Telegram. Durov revealed that Telegram had reached one billion monthly active users on his own personal channel. That marks an increase of 50 million u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 07:21:59
On Wednesday, a ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee accused the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of "misusing law enforcement" to claw back climate funds and "humor" Donald Trump’s "vindictive political whims." In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) requested information about a supposed criminal investigation into the EPA's $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). Whitehouse alleg
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