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Ransomware group BlackCat has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Reddit in February and is now demanding a $4.5 million payment to prevent it from publishing 80GB of data that it claims to have stolen from the site. But that’s not all, as the group, which is also known as ALPHV, is insisting that Reddit also reverse the API price changes that have caused so much controversy just recently. In a message posted by the group this week, the perpetrator said: “We are very confident that Reddit will not pay any…

The Justice Department has arrested and charged a Russian national for his alleged role in multiple LockBit ransomware attacks against victims in the U.S. and around the world. According to a criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday, 20-year-old Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov is accused of carrying out five cyberattacks between August 2020 and March 2023, four of which deployed the notorious LockBit ransomware. “Astamirov allegedly participated in a conspiracy with other members of the LockBit…

Photo: alacary (Shutterstock)The U.S. government has a long history of using unconventional informants in its ongoing effort to catch crooks. Many times, those sources end up being criminals themselves, as a recent federal case clearly highlights. Crypto Exchanges Restrict WithdrawalsThis week, Forbes reported that a Los Angeles hairdresser wasarrested for attempting to orchestrate the murder of a Louisiana man. Authorities say Julia Coda used the online pseudonym “Bonfire” and funneled $10,000 in bitcoin to a dark web…

Here is the complete information you need on certified ethical hacker certification Hacking itself isn’t all that horrible. Which side you are on depends on why you are hacking. Cybercriminals who break into computer systems for personal gain have developed successful and lucrative professions. To prevent cyberspace from becoming uninhabitable for all of us, someone must stop them. Do you have a strong desire to work in cybersecurity? To become an ethical hacker, you can earn the Certified Ethical Hacker Certification.…

This generically titled crime thriller revolves around standard-issue conflicts – warring drug lords, kidnapped loved ones, and so on – involving characters with names so generic they sound like they were generated by a screenwriting algorithm: Rick Calloway, Mike Breslin, Zoe Carter are just some of the dishwater-dull examples. But squint very hard and you might see a few imaginative or at least weird touches around the peripheries of the story, like little jocular Easter eggs snuck in by actors and editors working…

The blockchain space is home to over 24,000 cryptocurrencies for investors and traders to pick from and most of them have the primary objective of reaching the top spot in regard to market capitalization and providing genuine value to investors and traders. But projects can have the largest ecosystems, such as Solana (SOL) and yet still decline in value. Historically, some of the savviest investors have made the most significant gains through simply making investments within presale-stage projects and one of the latest…

A Russian national has been charged for his alleged role in the cyberattacks against law enforcement, government agencies, hospitals, and schools. The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed two indictments on Tuesday against Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, who is known online as Wazawaka, claiming he demanded a total of $400 million from his victims and received roughly $200 million in ransom payments. Teenage Cybercrime Gang LAPSUS$ Strikes Again“From his home base in Russia, Matveev allegedly used multiple ransomware variants…

The US State Department has announced a reward of up to $10 million for information that leads to the arrest of a prolific hacker. On Monday, the Department of Justice filed criminal charges against Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian national and resident with links to the infamous Hive, LockBit and Babuk ransomware gangs. Starting as early as 2020, Matveev has allegedly targeted US law enforcement and healthcare organizations on multiple occasions. In April 2021, for instance, he was linked to a Babuk ransomware attack…

The FBI says it has disrupted a long-running malware operation that allowed Russian spies to steal sensitive information from numerous countries, including NASA-member governments, prominent journalists, and other targets deemed to be of interest to the Russian government. The court-authorized operation, codenamed MEDUSA, disrupted a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by sophisticated malware called “Snake,” described by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as the “premier cyberespionage malware” of…