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Category: Unit 221B

  • Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P

    Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and secure online communications. I2P users started reporting disruptions in the network around the same time the Kimwolf botmasters…

  • Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms

    Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments from victims. The charges came as Jubair and an…

  • Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

    Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But a new report finds the accused continues to operate a slew of established accounts at American tech…

  • Breachforums Boss to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach

    Breachforums Boss to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick,…

  • Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe

    Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry could be grounds to…

  • A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

    A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely…

  • U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions

    U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a…